Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (NARA)

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, software engineers design, implement, and maintain software systems to improve government services for users. This software is built to meet the needs of regular users of government services as well as Skylight's partners in government.

Skylight is partnering with the National Archives (NARA) to improve how electronic records across the government are migrated, preserved, and accessed.

On this team, you'll build end-to-end on a cloud-native stack — including AWS, Spring Boot, and Angular — to make large volumes of government records reliable, searchable, and accessible to the people who depend on them.

What you'll do

• Build and improve systems that migrate, preserve, and make large volumes of government records searchable and accessible
• Engineer software products end-to-end — frontend and backend — on a cloud-native stack as part of a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers
• Build accessible, Section 508–compliant interfaces and the APIs and services behind them, keeping secure data exchanges reliable and performant
• Advocate for and adhere to lean-agile engineering practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Build secure, compliant software that meets federal security standards and defends against common vulnerabilities
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge to strengthen the team's engineering practice

What we're looking for

Basic qualifications

• Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
• Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
• Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Possess a foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
• Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
• Experience engineering software products end-to-end — frontend and backend — on a cloud-native stack as part of a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers in iterative delivery
• 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
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with databases and cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS and OpenSearch
• Familiarity with CI/CD best practices
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Terraform)
• Familiarity with Java/Spring Boot and a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular
• Experience delivering technology and modernizing legacy systems in government, regulated industries, or other public-benefit settings
• A track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams

Don't meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We'd still love to hear from you. If you're excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Other requirements

• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
• 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 complete a company background check successfully.

Logistics

Position type

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Location

This is a fully remote position.

Travel

This role may require occasional travel based on company, client, or contract needs.

Care package

Salary

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