Staff Backend Software Engineer, Brightwheel
Growth
$142-237k
Offers equity
Online platform for early education management
Job no longer available
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$142-237k
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced early- or mid-stage startups
- Proficiency in both contributing to and designing APIs using Ruby on Rails or similar technologies
- Expertise in writing automated tests (unit/integration/functional)
- Expertise in using Git (or VC equivalent)
- Experience with 3rd party integrations
- Experience with variation testing
- Experience with a variety of codebase sizes and ages
- Proficiency with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with architecting distributed systems for scalability and reliability
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures preferred
- Experience with modern webapps like React.js preferred
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred
- Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We do not require prior knowledge of technologies in our stack; we only need a desire to learn them
What the job involves
- Our School Operations team is focused on enabling the best day-to-day product experience possible
- Early childhood educators are terribly short on time: the easier it is for them to take care of routine tasks, like tracking student attendance, logging activities, and communicating with parents, the more time they have to focus on engaging directly with the children they care for
- At brightwheel, product engineers work closely with product and design, as well as with other areas of the business, to define and deliver an experience that meets our customers' biggest needs
- Lead projects on our School Operations team - helping ensure brightwheel works exceptionally well for our customers
- Work alongside product and design to scope and implement new features or product lines
- Provide input to both delivery and discovery–providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team
- Be a steward of quality, scalability, security, and performance. You'll work with other engineers to ensure that we have a solid foundation that serves our customers and enables the team to continue building a great product
- Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate, to support brightwheel's growth
- Share knowledge and expertise across the engineering team
- Mentor and help to grow the engineering team
Our take
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
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