Software Engineer

Lightyear AI

10d•$120,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

Lightyear builds software that is revolutionizing the telecom management experience for hundreds of enterprises. Lightyear’s platform helps enterprise IT teams automate telecom procurement, network inventory management, telecom bill payment, and much more. As a software engineer at Lightyear, you will work directly with our CTO and VP of Product to build the core components of Lightyear’s IT automation software, helping us design a robust set of engineering standards in the process. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems as we continue to push Lightyear forward. You’ll work within (and help influence) our tech stack which utilizes a React front-end, a Django Rest Framework back-end, a Postgres database, and hosting on AWS.

Requirements

2+ years of professional software engineering experience
Proficiency in a modern frontend framework (React, Vue, etc.) and a server-side language (Python, Node, etc.)
Comfortable with SQL databases, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
You write tests and care about code quality, but know when to ship vs. over-engineer
Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technologies and domains

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying AI/ML into production code

Responsibilities

Build and ship full-stack features end-to-end, from API design to UI, that improve the telecom lifecycle for enterprise IT teams
Own problems wherever they live across the stack: backend logic, database design, frontend polish, or infrastructure
Move fast - we'd rather test a hypothesis quickly than spend forever validating it
Contribute to product direction alongside the CTO and VP of Product - engineers here have a seat at the table
Leverage AI tooling and techniques to accelerate your own work, improve the product, and create processes and structures that enable the entire company