[Remote] Senior Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skillable is a 100% remote technology company modernizing training through skills-based learning solutions. The Senior Software Engineer owns projects and systems end-to-end, designing, building, and maintaining server-side infrastructure, client-side interfaces, APIs, databases, and design systems for custom labs and related applications. The role also leads AI-assisted engineering practices, automated testing, technical quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 5+ years working with .NET Framework and C# required, AND Typescript or JavaScript required
• 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
• 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 working with hands-on technical training environments, virtual labs, or learning platforms is highly desirable
• 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
• Experience with the following is appreciated but not strictly required: Authentication (e.g., OIDC, OAuth, SAML), NextJS, ExpressJS, and Building pipelines and DevOps practices

Benefits

• 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!

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