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As Skylight’s first Lead Engineer, you’ll become fluent in all the facets of our infrastructure. We process millions of photos per month, and we’re constantly improving our products and exploring new offerings – so you’ll get a chance to learn about both scale and innovation. You can expect lots of mentorship and coaching from our CEO and CTO, both of whom have deep experience in Technology products.

Here are some elements of our technology stack, any of which you could jump into on day one (with plenty of support from the person who authored their first drafts):

A serverless pipeline in Node that extracts attachments from emails, transforms them, and serializes metadata for downstream consumption

A Rails JSON API, consumed by a React frontend (and by our hardware devices)

A high-throughput Go server on Dynamo that handles 1500 requests per second

A mobile app in React Native with lots of tricky photo-picking, editing, and uploading challenges

Each component presents a unique opportunity to experiment, learn, and improve!

To be a great candidate for this job, you must:

Love coding!

Have experience with Rails or Go at scale in production

Communicate with empathy and patience

Have 6+ years of coding experience

Appreciate both the purist’s and the pragmatist’s perspective

Be a fast and motivated experiential learner

Be highly analytical and data-driven

Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where you make (most of) the rules

Nice-to-haves include:

Entrepreneurial experience

Experience with Go, React, or Node

A background in analytics

Benefits of the role include: