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Come share your professional magic withhighly talented,drivenand fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what ateam focused on doing the right thing feels like!\nOurtalentedpeopleare whatmakesusfriendlyandhavefun!We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. Weutilizeouremployees’ personal strengths to helpgrowour companyand ensure our team is living their best, authentic life.Weshare our appreciation for our team members regularly during all-hands,a workplace appreciation tool, regular shoutoutsin our Teams channels, social media, amongstmore.Ourremote-firstwork environment blendswork and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist.\nCome work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your careerand lifestyle!\nWe'rean AI-first engineering team, and we treat that as a discipline, not a shortcut. Every engineer here works with agentic coding tools - Claude Codeand GitHub CoPilot are key drivers in our daily work,which changes the shape of the job:\nYou'llspend more of your time on design,decompositionand review, and less on typing. Agents handle much of the implementation; you own the architecture, theverificationand everything that ships. \nWe invest in the system that makes AI effective: project context, customagentsand skills, MCP integrations and multi-agent code review. Improving that system is engineering work here, andit'spart of the role. \nJudgment matters more, not less. Knowing when to hand work to an agent - and when not to - is a skill we hire for and grow. \nSkillable'swhole business is proving skills by doing. We hold our own work to the same standard: AI-assisted ornot,itisn'tdone untilit'sverified. \nThe Senior Software Engineer is responsible for owning projects and systems end-to-end - designing, building, and maintaining both server-side logic and infrastructure as well as client-side logic and interfaces that are key to our custom labs and related applications. Develop and optimize APIs, databases, UIs, design systems, and libraries written in either C# or JavaScript/TypeScript. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the product and technology roadmap is consistently delivered.\nWhat You Will Do:\nDesign, scope, and decompose complex software features into well-defined implementation plans,leveragingAI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery whilemaintainingengineering rigor.\nGuide and direct AI agents through feature development, serving as the primary architect, reviewer, anddecision-makertoframe the problem, set constraints and make the calls thatensure solutions are aligned with business requirements and technical standards.\nBuild effective scaffoldingthat enablesAI tools to generate high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code, project context management, reusable skills, agent workflows, promptframeworksand automated quality checks.\nDrive comprehensive automated testingand verificationpracticesfor every feature before release, ensuring unit testsandvalidation scenariosare tied back to the requirements.\nOwn the quality of all delivered software by rigorously reviewing AI-generated output, challenging assumptions,finding thegaps, andvalidatingthat solution fully resolvesthe problem.\nIdentifyand mitigate risks associated with AI-assisted development, ensuring generated solutions meet expectations for security, maintainability, correctness, and long-term sustainability.\nContinuouslyraise theteam capabilities in AI-driven engineering by improving workflows, tooling,agentsand best practicesother engineers depend on forquality outcomes.\nCreate andmaintaindocumentation of features, design decisions, configurations, and other key technical areas of the application.\nResolves ambiguity and turns ambiguous problems into defined, scoped work for themselves and others.\nActively collaborate with other developers, QA engineers, designers, and product experts in a cross-functionalscrum team.\nAssistwith scope and estimation for proposedfeatures,leading toaccuratecost and timeline estimates.\nPropose, prototype, and champion technologies and processes that continuously help Skillable advance integration solutions.\nMentor other members of the software team to foster skill development and knowledge sharing.\nEstablish quality development patterns and practices, ensuring the team adheres to these standards.\nCommunicates technical decisions clearly and gives feedback to peers in code reviews and beyond.\nPropose alternate designs that improve time-to-market or reduce cost or complexity.\nExplore and recommendnew technologies, patterns, and methods toaccomplishitems on the technical and product roadmaps.\nRecommend standards and best practices for non-functional requirements such as system performance, usability, reliability, adaptability, security, legal and other operational aspects.\nParticipate in team on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, or holidays for emergency support orspecial events.\nConsistently review work to ensure quality,avoiderrorsandmaintainhigh standards.\nContribute to interviewing and selecting new team members.\nSupport and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.\nOther strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement asrequired.\nWhat You Bring to the Role:\nBachelor’s degree in related field (computer software, computer science, software development, etc.) or equivalent work experience.\n8+ years of professional experience as a software developer in an agile product team.\n5+ years working with .NET Framework and C#required, AND Typescript or JavaScriptrequired.\nExperience working with hands-on technical training environments, virtual labs, or learning platforms is highly desirable.\nHands on experience delegating real implementation work toAI agentsand reviewing and verifying what comes back for delegatedengineering,not autocomplete. \nProven experienceregularly useof modernAI tools/agent tools including GitHub CoPilot and Claude Codeor similarasa standardpractice inbuildingsoftwarethat is not experimental.\nStrongfundamentals in system design, debugging and codereviewso AI raises the bar for, supporting existing coding skills. \nEvidence of building scaffoldingaroundAI tools: custom agents, MCP servers, eval harnesses or enablement that madeAI workmore efficientlyfora team or department, strongly preferred. \nExceptional judgmentin AI-generated output, preventing pursuits of ineffective solutions and technical dead endsand ensuring course correction early. \nDemonstrated experience in MSSQL and Entity Framework.\nProficiencyin collaborating with UX designers to translate designs into working software.\nProficiencyin creating and consuming RESTful APIs.\nProficiencyin Unit Testing, including writing comprehensive, maintainable, and efficient test cases to ensure code correctness, reliability, and performance.\nExperience working with cloud native applications.\nProactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement.\nSelf-motivation and the ability to contribute effectively with minimal supervision, within a collaborative team environment.\nAbility to adapt to dynamic project needs whilemaintainingquality and focus.\nAbility toparticipatein team on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, or holidays for emergency support orspecial events.\nExperience with the following is appreciated but not strictlyrequired: Authentication (e.g., OIDC, OAuth, SAML), NextJS,ExpressJS, and Building pipelines and DevOps practices.\nSalary Range\nThe base salary for this position is $130,000 - $170,000 annually. Consistent with applicable laws, compensation will be determined based on the candidate's level, relevant skills, qualifications, and experience along with requirements for the position and annual financial plans.\nSkillable is a distributed first team with employees working across the U.S., and we do not consider geography when determining compensation ranges.\nPay range and current benefit offerings are effective for 90 days from posting date. Standard employment offerings are subject to potential change upon periodic review and analysis, at the discretion of Skillable.\nWhat We Offer\nWe believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first. Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:\nFully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies\nMedical (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.\n401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements.\nUnlimited PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave.\nPrivilege 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.\nReimbursement for up to $750 annually to use towards lifestyle choices that impact their wellness such as gym memberships, fitness classes or healthy meal plans,\nStipend of $200 a month for office expenses.\nAccess to pet insurance; access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!\nWorking Conditions:\nThe job conditions for this position are in a remote home office setting, requiring a space that supports privacy and focus to attend to regular and frequent video and voice calls. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. 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