Senior or Staff Back End Engineer, Skylight

• 6+ years experience building software products end to end
• Deep mastery of either Ruby on Rails or another similar back end language
• Demonstrated ability to ship zero-to-one products as a solo engineer or team lead
• Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM providers
• Clear communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
• Startup experience strongly preferred

Desirable

• Our ideal candidate is a seasoned backend engineer with experience building AI-powered systems (tool calls, evals, etc.) and a passion for creating products and features that really matter to customers
• You know how to work with LLM APIs, optimize backend infrastructure, and work closely with not only engineers from other stacks, but also cross-functional partners, from retail to customer support to data
• We're looking for someone who loves finding simple, straightforward technical solutions to complex problems
• We're looking for a seasoned Back End Software Engineer (Senior or Staff level) to work directly with our GM of New Businesses to build out new AI-powered features across our platform
• You'll work primarily in Ruby on Rails to bring brand new products and features to life by integrating with LLMs from vendors like OpenAI, Google, etc
• Design, build, and launch new user-facing features powered by large language models (LLMs)
• Own major product initiatives from zero-to-one, in partnership with a small but mighty team
• Collaborate deeply with Product and Design to shape new products and features
• Integrate with third-party APIs like OpenAI, Google, etc., and explore new model capabilities
• Contribute to our codebases in Ruby on Rails
• Write maintainable, high-quality code with strong test coverage
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews and design discussions