About this role
Skyy Tech
We build human-centered AI products that help people learn, work, and grow
About Skyy Tech
Skyy Tech is an early-stage technology company building human-centered products designed to help people learn, work, and grow. Our first major product, SkyyLearn, is a human-led tutoring and learning platform thoughtfully supported by artificial intelligence.
We're building a platform that connects learners with human tutors while using AI to enhance—not replace—the learning experience.
The Role
We're looking for a Founding Full-Stack Engineer who wants to help build a product and engineering organization from the ground up.
You'll work directly with the founder and have meaningful influence over architecture, engineering standards, product decisions, infrastructure, and the technical direction of SkyyLearn.
This is an early-stage startup role. We're looking for someone comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, high ownership, and building systems from zero to production.
What You'll Work On
- Build and maintain applications using React and TypeScript
- Design backend services using Node.js and Python
- Build secure REST APIs and service integrations
- Design PostgreSQL data models and application architecture
- Develop authentication, authorization, and user-management systems
- Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into the SkyyLearn platform
- Build tutoring, messaging, scheduling, payments, and marketplace functionality
- Help design real-time tutoring and communication experiences
- Implement testing, observability, CI/CD, and deployment infrastructure
- Participate in architecture and product decisions
- Establish engineering standards as the team grows
- Help evaluate and mentor future engineering hires
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals
- Experience with React and modern frontend development
- Experience building APIs with Node.js
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure and production deployments
- Experience with Git and collaborative software-development workflows
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage startup environment
Nice to Have
- Python experience
- AWS or other cloud-platform experience
- AI/LLM integration experience
- Marketplace or EdTech experience
- Payments integration experience
- Real-time video, messaging, or WebSocket experience
- Mobile development experience
- Previous startup experience
Why Join
As an early engineering hire, you'll have significantly more ownership than you would in a traditional engineering role. You'll help shape the product, architecture, engineering culture, and technical foundation of a company at its earliest stage.
We are remote-first and focused on building a small, highly capable founding team.
Compensation: $60,000–$70,000 annual base salary
Equity: Approximately 1%–2.5%, depending on experience, responsibility, and overall compensation structure
Location: Remote — United States