Principal Software Engineer, Lead

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Skylight

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Government • Technology

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services. With a focus on modernizing government services through human-centered design and lean-agile engineering, Skylight empowers public servants to enhance their capabilities in the digital era. Combining government and commercial expertise, the company is dedicated to solving the toughest digital challenges faced by agencies and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in the public sector.

📋 Description

• Lead technical delivery of mobile and backend software for tactical users, from architecture decisions through implementation and code review • Build secure applications that stay useful on degraded or disconnected networks, including real-time voice, messaging, and offline maps • Partner with product, design, platform, and security teams to resolve dependencies and explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Shape the team’s use of AI-assisted development through spec-driven practices, independent verification, automated testing, and security review • Manage two software engineers initially and support their development, performance, and working conditions • Coach individuals through growth, feedback, and day-to-day challenges • Work on a modernized Team Awareness Kit (TAK) application for the U.S. Air Force, with potential expansion to related portfolio projects • Travel occasionally to Montgomery, Alabama, and other U.S. Air Force bases

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on technical leadership of complex software delivery, including architecture decisions, implementation, code reviews, and mentoring engineers • Full-stack delivery across modern frontend or mobile applications, backend services, APIs, and relational databases, including becoming productive in unfamiliar languages and frameworks • Experience with distributed systems, real-time or asynchronous communication, and integration with external systems • Secure application development, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management, along with cloud or container deployment and CI/CD • Experience using AI-assisted development tools with independent verification, testing, and security review • Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing • Understand the importance of always putting users at the center of your work, including thinking through the impact and implications of any code that you write • Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery • A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values • All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories • This contract requires U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment • You must be able to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card (CAC) and any special access the contract requires • You must complete a company background check successfully • Nice-to-haves: Experience with Flutter and Dart, Go, PostgreSQL, SQLite, WebSockets, WebRTC, geospatial applications, mapping, offline-first operation, degraded or disconnected networks, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, defense or regulated systems, STIGs, RMF, ATO processes, CAC, PKI, mTLS, TAK, Cursor on Target (CoT), AI-assisted engineering workflows, government or regulated industries, and remote teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance • Short-term and long-term disability insurance • Life and AD&D insurance • Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account • Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period • Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays • Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents • Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options • Business development / sales bonuses • Referral bonuses • Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development • Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases • Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more) • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment • An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

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