Senior Software Engineer

Skillable; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote with stipend

Medical benefits

401(k) with match

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company focused on AI-first engineering and skilling. You will design, decompose, and guide AI-driven development, owning architecture and verification while ensuring quality and security.

The role emphasizes mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable solutions in a remote-first environment. The team leverages Claude Code and GitHub CoPilot, with an emphasis on responsible AI, rigorous testing, and maintainable code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development in an agile team.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and training environments.
• Proficient in SQL Server and Entity Framework.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and cloud-native apps.
• Strong unit testing and code quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, scope, and decompose complex features using AI-assisted workflows.
• Direct AI agents to meet business requirements and standards.
• Develop scaffolding for AI tools, including agents and workflows.
• Lead comprehensive automated testing and verification.
• Mentor team members and contribute to hiring.

Skills

AI-driven engineering

System design

Code review

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub CoPilot

Claude Code

MSSQL

Entity Framework

RESTful APIs

Express/NextJS familiarity

Job description

Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, driven and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a team focused on doing the right thing feels like!

Our talented people are what makes us friendly and have fun! We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. We utilize our employees’ personal strengths to help grow our company and ensure our team is living their best, authentic life. We share our appreciation for our team members regularly during all-hands, a workplace appreciation tool, regular shoutouts in our Teams channels, social media, amongst more. Our remote-first work environment blends work and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist.

Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career and lifestyle!

We're an AI-first engineering team, and we treat that as a discipline, not a shortcut. Every engineer here works with agentic coding tools — Claude Code and GitHub CoPilot are key drivers in our daily work, which changes the shape of the job:

• You’ll spend more of your time on design, decomposition and review, and less on typing. Agents handle much of the implementation; you own the architecture, the verification and everything that ships.
• We invest in the system that makes AI effective: project context, custom agents and skills, MCP integrations and multi-agent code review. Improving that system is engineering work here, and it’s part of the role.
• Judgment matters more, not less. Knowing when to hand work to an agent — and when not to — is a skill we hire for and grow.
• Skillable’s whole business is proving skills by doing. We hold our own work to the same standard: AI-assisted or not, it isn’t done until it’s verified.

What You Will Do:

• Design, scope, and decompose complex software features into well-defined implementation plans, leveraging AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering rigor.
• Guide and direct AI agents through feature development, serving as the primary architect, reviewer, and decision-maker to frame the problem, set constraints and make the calls that ensure solutions are aligned with business requirements and technical standards.
• Build effective scaffolding that enables AI tools to generate high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code, project context management, reusable skills, agent workflows, prompt frameworks and automated quality checks.
• Drive comprehensive automated testing and verification practices for every feature before release, ensuring unit tests and validation scenarios are tied back to the requirements.
• Own the quality of all delivered software by rigorously reviewing AI-generated output, challenging assumptions, finding the gaps, and validating that solution fully resolves the problem.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with AI-assisted development, ensuring generated solutions meet expectations for security, maintainability, correctness, and long-term sustainability.
• Continuously raise the team capabilities in AI-driven engineering by improving workflows, tooling, agents and best practices other engineers depend on for quality outcomes.
• Create and maintain documentation of features, design decisions, configurations, and other key technical areas of the application.
• Resolves ambiguity and turns ambiguous problems into defined, scoped work for themselves and others.
• Actively collaborate with other developers, QA engineers, designers, and product experts in a cross-functional scrum team.
• Assist with scope and estimation for proposed features, leading to accurate cost and timeline estimates.
• Propose, prototype, and champion technologies and processes that continuously help Skillable advance integration solutions.
• Mentor other members of the software team to foster skill development and knowledge sharing.
• Establish quality development patterns and practices, ensuring the team adheres to these standards.
• Communicates technical decisions clearly and gives feedback to peers in code reviews and beyond.
• Propose alternate designs that improve time-to-market or reduce cost or complexity.
• Explore and recommend new technologies, patterns, and methods to accomplish items on the technical and product roadmaps.
• Recommend standards and best practices for non-functional requirements such as system performance, usability, reliability, adaptability, security, legal and other operational aspects.
• Participate in team on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, or holidays for emergency support or special events.
• Consistently review work to ensure quality, avoid errors and maintain high standards.
• Contribute to interviewing and selecting new team members.
• Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required.

What You Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (computer software, computer science, software development, etc.) or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience as a software developer in an agile product team.
• Experience working with hands‑on technical training environments, virtual labs, or learning platforms is highly desirable.
• Hands on experience delegating real implementation work to AI agents and reviewing and verifying what comes back for delegated engineering, not autocomplete.
• Proven experience regularly use of modern AI tools/agent tools including GitHub CoPilot and Claude Code or similar as a standard practice in building software that is not experimental.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging and code review so AI raises the bar for, supporting existing coding skills.
• Evidence of building scaffolding around AI tools: custom agents, MCP servers, eval harnesses or enablement that made AI work more efficiently for a team or department, strongly preferred.
• Exceptional judgment in AI-generated output, preventing pursuits of ineffective solutions and technical dead ends and ensuring course correction early.
• Demonstrated experience in MSSQL and Entity Framework.
• Proficiency in collaborating with UX designers to translate designs into working software.
• Proficiency in creating and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in Unit Testing, including writing comprehensive, maintainable, and efficient test cases to ensure code correctness, reliability, and performance.
• Experience working with cloud native applications.
• Proactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Self‑motivation and the ability to contribute effectively with minimal supervision, within a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to adapt to dynamic project needs while maintaining quality and focus.
• Ability to participate in team on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, or holidays for emergency support or special events.
• Experience with the following is appreciated but not strictly required: Authentication (e.g., OIDC, OAuth, SAML), NextJS, ExpressJS, and Building pipelines and DevOps practices.

Salary Range

The base salary for this position is $130,000 - $170,000 annually.Consistent with applicable laws, compensation will bedeterminedbased on thecandidate'slevel, relevant skills,qualifications, and experience along with requirements for the positionand annualfinancialplans.

Skillable is a distributed first team with employees working acrossthe U.S., and we do not considergeographywhendeterminingcompensation ranges.

Pay range and current benefit offerings are effective for 90 days from posting date. Standard employment offerings are subject to potential change upon periodic review and analysis, at the discretion of Skillable.

What We Offer

We believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first. Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies
• Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements.
• Unlimited PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave.
• Privilege of logging off at 2:00 pm local time, every Friday for team members who are caught up on work and meeting deliverables. Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week.
• Reimbursement for up to $750 annually to use towards lifestyle choices that impact their wellness such as gym memberships, fitness classes or healthy meal plans,
• Stipend of $200 a month for office expenses.
• Access to pet insurance; access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!

Working Conditions:

The job conditions for this position are in a remote home office setting, requiring a space that supports privacy and focus to attend to regular and frequent video and voice calls. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Periodic travel may be required equaling up to approximately 10% of the time.

Skillable participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work int he U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment.

Skillable can only hire potential candidates with a primary residence in the following States: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY,MA,ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI.