Full-Time Senior Staff Software Engineer
Skylight is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Staff Software Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Worldwide based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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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.
In this role, you'll work with leading public health experts and technologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop automated tools that enhance public health investigations and advance health equity. You'll play a critical role in shaping and implementing user-centered software solutions that empower public health systems to efficiently manage and integrate unpredictable data volumes across diverse diseases and health threats. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a national initiative, delivering faster, more actionable insights to help decision-makers protect public health.
What you'll do
- Engineer a software product as part of a cross-functional team, which includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
- Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
- Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions
- Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, as well as design, document, and communicate solutions
What we're looking for Minimum 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
- Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
- Ability to take on data engineering responsibilities as needed
- 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
- Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
- Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Ability to travel for work from time to time
Nice-to-have qualifications
- Experience with public health data systems modernization
- Experience with healthcare or public health data standards (e.g., LOINC, SNOMED, HL7 including CDA, HL7 v2.5.1, FHIR)
- Experience working with content management systems
- Experience working with databases and/or cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with CI/CD best practices
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Terraform)
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with multiple programming languages and/or full-stack development
- Experience working on early-stage products through adoption
- Active federal public trust (tier 2)
- Prior experience working with the CDC
- Prior experience working in the civic tech space
- Experience working in a remote-team environment