Senior Software Engineer

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:

The purpose of the Senior 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 Senior 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.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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

   1. design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software

   2. 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 

   3. actively participates in reviews of deliverables to ensure high quality and consistency

   4. capable of bringing any story/task to fruition with limited need for consultation of team members (although sharing knowledge of such is important)

   5. contribute to the overall architecture of systems, often working across multiple teams within the department

   6. collaborates with peers in designing highly scalable systems

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

   1. Facilitates and leads discussions around processes and solutions

   2. contributes to technology decisions

   3. contributes to sprint deliverables

   4. collaborates with team members and other departments

   5. assists and collaborates in efforts to ensure team predictability

3. Continuous learning and building expertise:

   1. increase domain knowledge about SkySlope and our clients

   2. continued learning around technologies that SkySlope utilizes

   3. facilitates knowledge and growth of peers by learning new & better ways to do things, and mentoring their peers via such knowledge

   4. exploration into better ways of doing things

   5. presenting to the ARB and/or holding L&Ls are expected and encouraged

4. Effective communicator:

   1. communicates honestly, openly, and respectfully with everyone

   2. mentors peers and able to provide constructive feedback to others

   3. able to contribute to overall goals of the team, even when differences in opinion or strategy exist

   4. assists in resolving differences in tactics and / or approach, despite differing opinions and experiences. 

   5. able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This often involves working with executives or higher level personnel in the company. 

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

All team members are always encouraged to think outside the box and pursue opportunities to go above and beyond their job description and baseline expectations, in order to make our customers’ lives better.

• Manager and peer positive observations of essential functions

• Meeting or exceeding deliverables and deadlines

• Positive peer reviews of code quality

• Languages: Typescript, Javascript, Golang

• Runtimes: Node

• Frameworks & Libraries: React,  Angular, Vue.js, NextJs

• Unit testing practices, frameworks and libraries

• DB: PostgreSQL, Google Spanner DB, MongoDb, and optimization of queries and database engines. This includes setting up alerts & monitoring as well as being responsible for hunting down any anomalies. 

• HTML, CSS

• JSON

• Source control (Git, TFS, SVN, etc)

• Continuous Integration (CI) platforms (e.g., CodePipeline, Argo) including setting up and terraforming pipelines for the team

• Taking ownership of the effort to support & troubleshoot system operations

• Cloud computing platform experience (eg. Google Cloud Preferred)

• Usage of Google Cloud Services (e.g., Buckets, Cloud Functions)

• Experience with capture of application usage metrics (e.g., Google Analytics, New Relic, Amplitude, DataDog)

This position may have direct reports on a case to case basis.

Medical Insurance – Company pays flat dollar amount towards premium 

There are 3 plan options 

Our Medical Insurance plans are provided through United Healthcare 

The United Healthcare HMO is only offered to California residents

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire

Per Paycheck (24 pay periods a year)

Employee costs per tier are as follows:

Employee Only  $58.92

Employee + Child $147.30

Employee + Spouse $175.78

Employee + Family $259.24

Employee Only $104.10

Employee + Child $244.63

Employee + Spouse $289.91

Employee + Family $422.63

Employee Only $84.56

Employee + Child $198.71

Employee + Spouse $235.49

Employee + Family $343.29

Dental Insurance – Company pays 75% of monthly premium only on Base Plan

This PPO plan is administered through Principal

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire

Employee Only $4.19

Employee + Child $11.73

Employee + Spouse $8.50

Employee + Family $17.20

Employee Only $6.65

Employee + Child $19.53

Employee + Spouse $13.51

Employee + Family $28.35

Vision Insurance – Company pays 100% of monthly premium

This plan is administered through Principal (VSP choice network)

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire

Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (with additional Voluntary Plans available) – Company paid plan with a guarantee issue amount of $25,000. 

Plan is administered through Principal

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire

Pricing varies for additional coverage, based upon age, coverage and dependent classification

Voluntary Short & Long Term Disability Insurance Plans – Optional plans to help protect your financial well-being.

Plan is administered through Principal

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire

Pricing varies, based upon age

Voluntary Accident insurance- Optional plans available to purchase that pays you a cash benefit to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is injured due to an accident. 

Employee Only $4.39

Employee + Spouse $6.73

Employee + Child(ren) $7.49

Employee + Family $11.50

Voluntary Hospital Indemnity- Optional plans available to purchase that pays you a cash benefit to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is admitted to the hospital

Employee Only $6.85

Employee + Spouse $17.43

Employee + Child(ren) $11.41

Employee + Family $22.84

Voluntary Critical Illness- Optional plans available to purchase to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is diagnosed with a covered critical illness. 

Pricing varies, based upon age

Flexible Spending Account – A tax savings account you put money into that you use to pay for certain out-of-pocket health care and dependent care costs.

Plan is administered through Discovery Benefits

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire, if you sign up by the 25th of the month

Health Savings Account (HSA)– A tax savings account for employees enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan. You can put money into this account to pay for certain out-of-pocket health care costs

Plan is administered through Discovery Benefits

Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire, if you sign up by the 25th of the month

Must be enrolled in the UHC HDHP/HSA medical plan with SkySlope to be eligible

SkySlope contributes $300 to an individual HSA and $600 to a family HSA

401(k) Plan – Company will match $0.50 on each $1.00 contributed up to the first 6% of eligible earnings

Plan is administered through Principal

Eligibility begins first pay date after 90 days of employment

Defer between 1% and 40% of eligible contribution

Employee Stock Purchase Plan - Company match equal to 33.3333% of dollars contributed to the plan, based upon the average purchase price for the quarter.

Plan administered through Fidelity 

Eligibility begins first pay date after 90 days of employment

May contribute after-tax dollars from 3% to 15% of base earnings

Paid Time Off (PTO) – Company provides 120 hours (equivalent of 15 days) of PTO for new hires

PTO accrual begins after 90 days of employment

11 observed, 5 floating (used for personal holidays)

List of observed holidays published annually

Eligibility begins on your first day of employment

Bereavement Leave – Company will provide you with the following off to grieve the loss of a loved one. 

5 paid days of leave for an immediate family member. This is a spouse, child, parent, grandparent. 

1 paid day of leave for a close non-family member.

Discounts through Fidelity - Purchasing discounts for wireless, car rentals, hotels and more…

Pet Insurance through Nationwide- 50%, 70% reimbursement plans available through Nationwide with options for wellness. SkySlope contributes $20 a month, per pet, up to 2 pets towards the cost of the plan

Paid Parental Leave - All full-time regular employees are eligible for SkySlope’s Paid Parental Leave program, which provides employees with up to six (6) weeks of pay following the birth or placement of a new child. Paid Parental Leave must be taken within the first 6 months of the birth or placement of a new child. Employees will be paid at their regular rate of pay based upon their normal work schedule, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours per week.

Dayforce Wallet- All full-time regular employees will have access to sign up for Dayforce Wallet. Dayforce Wallet is a program provided by our payroll provider that allows employees to access their pay on-demand as soon as it is earned, without waiting for their standard payday.

Waldorf University discounts and perks- 10% off tuition for employees and their families, free text books, and scholarship opportunities available

Child Literacy Assistance Program discount- Discounted annual membership to Luminous Minds, an online resource center created to help with child literacy struggles. $85 for 1 year membership as a SkySlope Employee.

$1,000 Employee Referral bonuses- SkySlope will give every referrer $1,000 (post-tax) after a referee passes their 90 day mark. 

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.

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