DESCRIPTION

Skylight (https://skylight.digital/) is at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how the government serves the public in a digital world.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our talented team of technologists in driving this movement forward.

You’ll be a key part of our small, but rapidly growing team, which consists of former Presidential Innovation Fellows, founders of 18F, and members of the U.S. Digital Service.

We work in small, fast, agile teams to create exceptional customer experiences and enduring solutions out of the government’s most complex design and technology challenges. The work is challenging, but highly rewarding.

Your initial engagement will be with the State of Connecticut, which is one of the first state & local governments undertaking an organizational-wide digital transformation. The initial focus of this transformation is on improving services related to serving the needs of children and families. These services range from reducing infant deaths to improving early childhood development.

Our job is to help jumpstart and accelerate the State of Connecticut’s transformation through high-impact activities such as:

• Identifying and prioritizing which services to improve through user experience research and technical discovery
• Creating a comprehensive, flexible roadmap for change to guide decisions and actions around service improvement, policymaking, and budgeting
• Instituting new digital policies & standards (for example, API standards)
• Developing and empowering digital talent throughout the state government (for example, via recruiting, training, and coaching)
• Executing on tightly-scoped delivery projects to set the foundation for broad-based change, as well as demonstrate the art of the possible

REQUIREMENTS

What you’ll do:

• Engineer an incredible experience for developers who are working in web-based environments such as Ruby, Python, Java, and Node.js through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Represent Skylight's culture of delivery when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors

What we’re looking for:

• Expertise in the areas of version control, deployment automation, continuous integration, test automation, monitoring, proactive notification, and “shift-left security”
• Able to deploy and configure services using infrastructure as a service providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Able to solve problems using scripting and programming skills
• Able to administer Linux-based systems, as well as Apache-based web servers
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Docker
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary, agile team format
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values (https://skylight.digital/culture/)
• Ability to travel to Hartford, Connecticut frequently

BENEFITS

We focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• Competitive salary
• Profit-sharing and/or bonus opportunities
• Health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and more
• 401k match at 10% of your salary
• Unlimited paid time-off policy
• $2,000 continuing education allowance, including conference events
• Time to focus on activities such as learning & development, open-source projects, and community outreach
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good
• Potential for relocation assistance if willing to move to a HUBZone area (https://maps.certify.sba.gov/hubzone/map). (Read more about us being a HUBZone: https://skylight.digital/about/#hubzone.)

Note that we participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.