Job description

OUR ORIGIN STORY 🎂

In 2011 SkySlope started as an idea born at the kitchen table of our CEO, with just him and two others. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, we have since grown out of our previous 3 offices and many of our close to 150 employees are spread all across the United States. Those 150 employees support close to 300,000 users across 5,000 offices nationwide and now in Canada as well. Included in that is 8 out of the 15 largest Real Estate Brokerages in the nation.

But, despite being happy with what we’ve achieved we know that as industry leaders in our space there’s a lot of work left to be done. All of the growth and success that has happened is a result of us obsessing over building cutting edge software that makes the Real Estate world a better place. We know this only happens by hiring people who don’t just come up with out of the box ideas but hiring people who actually see those ideas through and bring them to life. As we’ve grown, we’ve been fortunate enough to hire plenty of people who possess that quality and realize it’s equally important to hire people who can pair that skill with empathy, collaboration, and a keen sense of urgency. If you’re looking to join a company where you can have real impact and surround yourself with an incredible team of people then look no further.

SKYSLOPE’S CORE VALUES 💪🏻

These are the principles that helped us get to where we are and they are the principles that will guide us to where we want to go in the future. You can apply them to your professional life, your personal life, to any business and any situation. In no specific hierarchy, our core values are:

Learn more about our core values from our CEO, Tyler Smith here!

Principal Software Engineer is to develop and improve SkySlope software in pursuit of making life better for every real estate agent, broker and service provider. Specifically, this involves developing, testing, deploying and improving software, while managing deliverables. The Principal Software Engineer will foster innovation, invest in the growth of their peers, and engage with other SkySlope team members and teams to ensure the overall stability and quality of our engineering efforts. In addition, the Principal Software Engineer will focus on advanced technical projects requiring state of the art technical knowledge, along with providing consultation to their peers on complex and cross-functional projects. The Principal Engineer can be expected to lead solo or team projects of significant complexity.

Responsible for developing, maintaining and deploying improved and new software:

meeting business goals as efficiently as possible
expertise in a particular area
design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
manage his or her own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables, while at the same time understanding how their efforts, along with the efforts of their teammates, must be coordinated to ensure predictability
actively participates in reviews of deliverables to ensure high quality and consistency
works on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical and industry knowledge
design and contribute to the overall architecture of systems, considering cross system interaction and cohesive user experiences throughout
design and contribute to tools, processes, and improvements that increase the overall effectiveness of their team

Responsible for contributing to team success and being an effective collaborator:

proven track record of delivering highly complex technical projects & solutions
drives discussions around processes and solutions
contributes to technology decisions
contributes to sprint deliverables
collaborates with team members and other departments
provides consultation on complex projects
goals & guidance are generally communicated at the solution or project level
assists and collaborates in efforts to ensure team predictability

Responsible for continuous learning and building expertise:

comprehensive domain knowledge about SkySlope and our clients, and strong business acumen
continued learning around technologies that SkySlope utilizes
leads efforts to grow the knowledge and expertise of their peers by instilling new & better ways to do things, and mentoring growth in such knowledge
exploration into better ways of doing things, and implementing those techniques across the teams

Responsible for being an effective communicator:

comfortable in front of both executives as well as large groups
comfortable speaking both inside & outside the company
communicates honestly, openly, and respectfully with everyone
able to provide constructive feedback to peersactively seeks input from their peers on technical challenges and solutions, and is an effective & respectful mediator when significant differences of opinion occurable to contribute to the overall goals of the team, even when differences in opinion or strategy exist
assists in resolving differences in tactics and / or approach, despite differing opinions and experiences
able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Core Technical Competencies

Languages: C#, Javascript
Runtimes: .NET CLR, Node
Frameworks & Libraries: React, Angular, LoopBack
Automated testing (Unit, Integration, Performance, etc.)
DB: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, and optimization thereof
HTML, CSS
JSON
Source control (Git, TFS, SVN, etc)
Continuous Integration (CI) platforms (e.g., CodePipeline, Jenkins)
Ability and willingness to support & troubleshoot system operations
Agile & Scrum
Cloud computing platform experience (eg. AWS)

Desireable Technical Experience

Usage of AWS Services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3)
Experience with capture of application usage metrics (e.g., Google Analytics, Amplitude)

$220,000 - $250,000 a year

Perks & PTO 🌴

- $1000 referral bonuses

- 15 PTO days per year

- 16 paid holidays per year (5 floating to be used at any time)

- Paid day off on your birthday

- 5 Days Paid Bereavement Leave

- 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

- Waldorf University discounts and perks

- Child literacy assistance program discounts

- Discounts on wireless, car, rentals, hotels, and more…

Insurance Offerings 👩‍⚕️

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

- Accident insurance, Critical Illness, Hospital indemnity

- Company-paid Life Insurance

- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

- Health Spending Account (HSA)

- Pet Insurance

Retirement and Investment 💸

- 401k + match

- Employee Stock Purchase Plan opportunities

SkySlope, is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive

consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status,

national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), genetic

information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We sincerely thank you for taking the time to review our open positions and hope you’ll take the time to submit a concise and thoughtful application.

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Principal Software Engineer