Senior Software Engineer, Wonderschool
Payments
$160-180k
4 days a week in office
Marketplace for child care
Open for applications
Marketplace for child care
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
4 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower early educators to build sustainable businesses that meet the unique needs of families across the nation.
Role
Who you are
- You are a versatile technologist capable of managing and executing a broad spectrum of engineering tasks, critical to scaling backend systems
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus in developing full stack applications and familiarity with a wide range of technologies and programming concepts
- Prior experience and expertise working with payment systems and payment gateways, especially familiarity with Stripe or other similar payment processing platforms
- Proven experience working on highly complex high-trafficked web applications and APIs, with a focus on observability, performance monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Overall understanding of serverless computing and Platform as a Service providers such as Firebase
- Proficiency with NoSQL data engines like Firestore and SQL data engines like Postgres, with a focus on database design and optimization
- Our tech stack includes: Typescript, NestJS, React, and Elixir/Phoenix, GCP
- We use GitHub Actions and Linear for project management and tracking progress
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or depth of practical experience
- Previous experience with our current technology stack is not required but helpful
Desirable
- Previous experience with functional programming languages
- Previous experience supporting Highly Available services with 99.99% uptime or higher
- Previous experience in a startup environment or high-growth company
- Previous experience in a partially remote team setup
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our team with a focus on building our backend payments systems
- You will play a crucial role in achieving our team’s core mission, to develop Your expertise in the delivery of high-quality software will be essential in securing and simplifying the financial workflows for Child Care Providers across the Wonderschool platform as we continue to scale
- Develop and maintain systems and processes that ensure high levels of reliability, security, and interoperability across the Wonderschool platform
- Leverage extensive experience with Full-Stack development with a focus on backend systems to design and build out the Wonderschool Payments Platform with reliability, stability, and efficiency
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including; product managers, designers, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and project timelines
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, working closely with the team to identify and implement simple and effective solutions
- Deliver high-quality, performant code and deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving traffic
- Communicate technical design effectively with developers of all levels
- Add value to our engineering culture by soliciting feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback
- Continually improve our engineering standards in code reviews, advocating for better patterns and technologies, and making a meaningful impact on our development experience and tooling
- Promote a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing within the team
Our take
Wonderschool is a digital platform that enables parents and families to identify and connect with programs and preschools for infants and toddlers. The app has a huge database of potential providers, and uses intelligent software to identify the best child care and microschools for children.
This is an important service, as there are problems at both ends of the pipeline. Educators and carers are often paid insufficiently, while many parents struggle to find suitable education programs for their children. Wonderschool promises to solve those problems, while also providing a bespoke service that ensures that children get the care that they really require.
The childcare management platform has been instrumental in improving the quality and accessibility of care to children, as well as increasing the salaries of childcare professionals. It is fast-growing and can expect to continue this way following series B funding that is being invested into scaling access to flexible care.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Aug 2018
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.1m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off, paid holidays, and mental wellness days
- Hit the gym, relax, or de-stress using monthly stipends
- Remote - Work where you want, our team is distributed across the Americas
- Health - Up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
- Competitive parental leave policies for individuals after 6 months of employment
- Autonomy
Company values
- Children First - We serve everyone whose purpose is to provide early education and care to children; We constantly seek to understand the needs of children, parents and providers; We build products and services that focus on developing and retaining trust
- Lead with Empathy - We treat each other and our customers with respect; We deliver effective feedback with kindness, have difficult conversations with grace, and focus on the growth of our teammates; We work to create a diverse, safe, productive, and fun work environment
- Exceed Expectations - We strive to do the best work of our lives; We push the limits of the goals we set and the experiences we deliver; We work smart and put in the effort
Company HQ
Northwest Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
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Leadership
Chris Bennett
(CEO)Earned a BSc in Economics from UPenn Wharton School. Private Equity Associate at Heitman. Co-founder and CEO of Soldsie. Co-founded Wonderschool in 2016.
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