Staff Software Engineer (Minnesota-hybrid)

SkyWater Search Partners; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

SkyWater Search Partners is partnering with a national organization to scale its Twin Cities based digital products group. This is a growth hire focused on AI-forward engineering with full ownership from idea to production, combining the stability of a large company with the speed of a startup.

Based in the Twin Cities with hybrid work, the role targets senior to principal engineers who can lead features end to end, mentor others, and navigate fast-moving, ambiguous projects using advanced AI

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience (Senior) or 9+ (Principal) or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience building with AI coding tools inside an actual workflow.
• True full-stack experience across backend, frontend, and systems-level work.
• Experience operating at a fast, ambiguous pace.
• Strong communication skills to present tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end, from early conversations with a business stakeholder through backend, data, and user-facing interfaces
• Use agentic AI tools (Codex, Claude Code, or similar) as a core part of daily development, not a side experiment
• Architect solutions for loosely defined, ambiguous problems, accounting for edge cases up front
• Build to production standards: testing, CI/CD, observability, and recovery paths from the start
• Act as a technical lead on project-sized teams and mentor other engineers

Skills

Software engineering

AI coding tools

Full-stack

Fast-paced env

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree optional

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

• Job Tag:
• Posted: September 09,2026
• Salary: $175,000

SkyWater is partnering with a national organization that is scaling the engineering team behind its Twin Cities based digital products group.y. This is a growth hire tied to real demand, not a backfill, and the team specifically needs more AI-forward technical talent to continue building with growth in mind.

This is a chance to work at a principal level inside a large, stable company while still building software the way a smaller company does: direct access to the business side, full ownership from idea to production, and a team that is actually investing in AI-forward development rather than talking about it. Twin Cities based, hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end, from an early conversation with a business stakeholder through backend, data, and user-facing interfaces
• Use agentic AI tools (Codex, Claude Code, or similar) as a core part of daily development, not a side experiment
• Architect solutions for loosely defined, ambiguous problems, accounting for edge cases up front
• Build to production standards: testing, CI/CD, observability, and recovery paths from the start
• Act as a technical lead on project-sized teams and mentor other engineers

Desired Skills And Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience for Senior, 9+ for Principal, or equivalent experience without a bachelor's degree
• Real, hands-on experience building with AI coding tools inside an actual workflow, not just familiarity with them
• True full-stack range across backend, frontend, and systems-level work, not a narrow specialist in one layer
• Experience operating at a fast, ambiguous pace, ideally from a smaller company or a role that required wearing more than one hat
• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders