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Skylight is a company that offers digital picture frames and calendar devices designed to bring families together and simplify household organization. Their products include a Skylight Frame, which allows users to share photos and videos with loved ones through an anti-glare touchscreen display, and the Skylight Calendar, which displays everyone's schedules in one interactive device. 

These products are easy to set up, do not require a subscription, and aim to keep users connected and organized. Skylight frames and calendars are touted as great gifts, especially for keeping family memories alive and ensuring ease of communication among multiple family members. 


11 - 50 employees


Founded 2015

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

🛒 Retail

💰 Venture Round on 2020-09

Senior Backend Engineer
11 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote


⛰️ Colorado – Remote


💵 $180k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

JavaScript

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

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📋 Description
• Skylight’s mission is to build the OS of the family, making consumer products like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar loved by millions and scaled to over $190M in annual revenue while bootstrapped
• Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build internal tooling, collaborate with retail, customer support, and data teams, and maintain key APIs and backend infrastructure
• Technical stack is primarily Ruby on Rails with some JavaScript/TypeScript Lambda functions (Rails 8.0, Ruby 3.4); comprehensive test suite runs under two minutes

🎯 Requirements
• You’re excited to be part of a self-motivated and capable team that prides itself on having a massive impact per employee
• You have a track record of architecting, implementing, testing, and maintaining reliable backend services
• You’re a first-rate communicator in both code and human language, contributing to deep technical discussions across team and tech stack boundaries
• You work closely with non-technical stakeholders to design and build features that make customers’ eyes light up and keep our bootstrapped business humming
• You’re great at figuring out how systems can work better and love having the autonomy to leave things better than you found them
• An inexplicable love of goats, our unofficial backend team mascot

🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Except November & December)