Senior Software Engineer

• [15%] Work with product managers, customers, internal users, and other engineers to understand requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.
• [10%] Formulate solutions, evaluate tradeoffs, and break work into executable milestones and implementation plans.
• [55%] Build and ship software. Examples include:
  • Authoring and infrastructure as code.
  • Designing and implementing new services and APIs.
  • Building reusable user experiences and workflows.
  • Improving reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity.
  • Reviewing code generated by peers and by agents
  • Leveraging AI tools and autonomous agents to accelerate delivery.
• [20%] Improve Horizon, our engineering systems, and the way we work. Examples include:
  • Building internal tooling and automation.
  • Improving documentation and architectural clarity.
  • Reducing operational toil.
  • Expanding AI and agent capabilities.
  • Improving testing, observability, and deployment workflows.
  • Exploring new ideas, experiments, and prototypes that could improve Horizon or the way we build software.

Success is measured by outcomes delivered, not lines of code written.

• 7+ years of experience designing, shipping, and operating production software systems.
• A proven track record of operating with absolute self-direction—capable of taking a loosely defined, high-level mandate and driving it to production with minimal to no supervision.
• Experience navigating the fast-paced, evolving environments typical of early-stage companies, scaling startups, or operating as a founding engineer.
• Growth & Leadership Readiness: While this role begins as an elite Individual Contributor, you possess the communication skills, high emotional intelligence (EQ), and mentoring instincts required to anchor, build, and formally lead an engineering team as the organization scales.
  Mastery of modern backend systems (e.g., Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or Go) coupled with significant frontend architectural experience (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Advanced Infrastructure Experience: Direct production experience provisioning cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• AI Integration Mastery: Deep familiarity with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, with a strong internal compass for auditing, correcting, and securing agent-generated outputs.

• Familiarity with our stack: AWS, GitLab, Auth0, Grafana, Terraform, Kafka, Node.js, Nest.js, TypeScript, Apollo GraphQL, React, Ant Design, Vitest, Playwright, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or automation systems.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale.
• Background in utility-scale energy generation, emphasis on renewables

• Own outcomes, not assignments: You focus on the final business value delivered, not just closing out tickets.
• Have strong opinions that are loosely held: You advocate fiercely for technical excellence but pivot gracefully when presented with better data.
• Operate with a founder's mentality: You are self-accountable, self-correcting, and proactively identify risks and scaling opportunities before they become critical.
• Create clarity from chaos: You excel at parsing noise, identifying core constraints, and bringing alignment to cross-functional teams.

SkySpecs is an equal opportunity employer. SkySpecs does not discriminate in employment with regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service or any other characteristic protected by law.