Remote Fullstack Software Engineer for Civic Platform

Skylighthq; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Skylight is a fully remote software consultancy partnering with the U.S. federal government to build Fostering the Future for young adults aging out of foster care.

The platform uses RAG-based LLM features and a curated knowledge base to guide users to resources with safe, accurate guidance. You will join a small cross-functional team of researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers to design end-to-end systems, optimize semantic search, and implement secure APIs and services on a

Qualifications

• Experience designing and improving RAG based LLM systems including semantic search.
• Experience designing multiple LLM/agent interactions to search and refine data sets.
• Experience using LLMs to aggregate, refine, and review data sets.
• Strong prompt improvement skills and understanding of LLM patterns that work.
• Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code.
• Familiar with building secure, compliant software and defending against vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer a software product end-to-end — frontend and backend — as part of a cross-functional team.
• Design and optimize the platform’s LLM-powered features — semantic search, prompt engineering, and retrieval quality.
• Build accessible, Section 508–compliant interfaces and the APIs and services behind them, ensuring secure data exchanges.
• Evaluate and improve the safety and quality of LLM interactions for trustworthy experiences.
• Build secure, compliant software that meets federal security standards and defends against vulnerabilities.
• Advocate lean-agile practices: API-first design, simple design, CI, version control, automated testing.
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge to strengthen engineering practice.

Skills

RAG systems design

Semantic search

LLM interactions

Prompt engineering

Clean code

Tools

LangChain

FastAPI

Postgres

pgvector

Next.js

Claude

Amazon Titan

Job description

Skylight is a fully remote software consultancy partnering with the U.S. federal government to build Fostering the Future for young adults aging out of foster care.

The platform uses RAG-based LLM features and a curated knowledge base to guide users to resources with safe, accurate guidance. You will join a small cross-functional team of researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers to design end-to-end systems, optimize semantic search, and implement secure APIs and services on a