[Hiring] Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Frontend @Skylight

Role Description

At Skylight, software engineers design, implement, and maintain software systems that improve government services for users. Frontend engineers shape how those systems are experienced by creating intuitive, accessible, and reliable interfaces that help people navigate complex information and complete critical tasks with confidence.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is expanding its Digital Services team during an exciting period of growth, focused on delivering modern, user-centered digital products, exploring AI-enablement opportunities, and building long-term technical capacity.

In this role, you'll hit the ground running in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment:

• Coordinate immediately with researchers, designers, engineers, and government stakeholders.
• Deliver against an ambitious vision from day one.
• Work at the intersection of product strategy, change management, enablement, and service delivery.
• Build trust across teams and ensure new digital capabilities are understood, usable, and sustained.

Qualifications

• Ability to write clean, reusable, and maintainable code with strong attention to testing and reliability.
• Experience building modern web applications using React (or equivalent single-page frameworks) and component-driven design.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, asynchronous data fetching, and API integration patterns.
• Experience collaborating with backend teams (especially Python-based) to deliver cohesive user experiences.
• Familiarity with building secure, compliant software and mitigating common vulnerabilities.
• Experience designing and implementing interactive, data-rich UIs (e.g., filters, tagging, dashboards).
• Familiarity with integrating AI- or ML-driven features such as search, tagging, or summarization.
• Experience contributing to build and deployment pipelines (e.g., CI/CD, AWS Amplify, or similar).
• Understanding how to design performant, reliable, and user-centered systems.
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment.
• Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values.
• Ability to travel for work from time to time.

Requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• May be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
• May be required to complete a company background check successfully.
• Some roles may require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account.
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period.
• Flexible paid time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays.
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents.
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options.
• Business development / sales bonuses.
• Referral bonuses.
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development.
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases.
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise.
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year.
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good.