The Company: 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, and is utilized by companies including Honeywell, Alo Yoga, Palo Alto Networks, and Louis Vuitton. Lightyear has raised nearly $50M from the first investors in Roblox, Discord, Coupang, Robinhood, and Flexport.
The Position: We’re looking to grow Lightyear’s software engineering team. 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.
This position will be full-time and salaried with competitive compensation and significant promotion opportunities for the right individual. The salary for this role will be based on experience with a range of $120,000-180,000.
Responsibilities:
- Design core software components to improve IT workflow automation
- Write well-designed, testable code and maintain a quality codebase
- Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems
- Contribute to product ideation alongside the executive team
Requirements:
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Experience with Javascript and modern UI frameworks (React expertise preferred)
- Proficiency in server-side code (Python and Django Rest experience preferred)
- Familiarity with SQL/Postgres, Docker, and AWS integration
- Exposure to architecture design of large web applications (APIs, database schema, etc)
- Automated testing design and implementation experience
Nice-to-have: Experience deploying AI/ML into production code
Top Skills
What We Do
Lightyear's software powers the enterprise telecom lifecycle from procurement through renewal. Configure internet, voice, WAN, and data center services online, receive validated best-price quotes, and have implementations managed with renewals and ticketing handled behind a single pane of glass. Carrier neutral, transparent, and fast.
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