About Skylight Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world. If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters. About the job At Skylight, software engineers design, implement, and maintain software systems to improve government services for users. This software is built to meet the needs of regular users of government services as well as Skylight’s partners in government.

S. Air Force Special Operations community to design, build, and maintain a secure, cross-platform situational-awareness platform delivered from a single codebase across mobile, desktop, and web. The same platform is built to serve civilian and disaster-response users, so you’ll be solving for both highly specialized operations and the broader public good.

You’ll work full-stack from a Flutter client to Go backend services applying modern engineering practices to harden security and reliability, integrate with existing defense systems, and modernize legacy environments. Much of what makes this work hard is the field itself: unreliable networks, denied environments, and a hard requirement that the tool keep working when the infrastructure doesn’t. You’ll do it in close collaboration with cross-functional teammates and government partners.

What You’Ll Do

Engineer full-stack software as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists Build and maintain a single cross-platform codebase (mobile, desktop, and web) backed by Go services, owning features end to end, from UI to API to datastore Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design and swappable interface seams, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing Tackle the problems that make this domain unique like real-time communications, offline-first and resilient operation, secure transport and identity (PKI, mTLS, token-based auth), and interoperability with existing situational-awareness systems Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, as well as design, document, and communicate solutions Coordinate with government partners to ensure seamless integration with their existing tools and processes

What We'Re Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

Strong full-stack engineering ability: you’re comfortable owning a feature across a typed client application and backend services, not just one layer Experience with our stack (Flutter/Dart and Go) or deep, transferable experience in adjacent technologies, e.g., strong TypeScript with React (or another reactive UI framework) plus a statically-typed backend language and the appetite to ramp quickly into both A cross-platform mindset: comfort shipping one codebase to multiple targets, and a preference for parity over per-platform forks Experience with real-time and/or distributed systems (WebSockets, pub/sub, presence, failover), and good instincts for how software should behave offline and on unreliable networks Comfortable building software that integrates within a broader system of systems: services, devices, and protocols you don’t fully control Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities (TLS/mTLS, PKI, token-based auth) Possess a foundational understanding of data engineering, incl

Senior/Staff Software Engineer (U. S. Air Force)