Staff Backend Software Engineer, Brightwheel

Growth

$142-237k

Offers equity

AWS
Kubernetes
Redis
Redshift
Git
Ruby on Rails
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

Open for applications

Brightwheel

Online platform for early education management

201-500 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Open for applications

$142-237k

Offers equity

AWS
Kubernetes
Redis
Redshift
Git
Ruby on Rails
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

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.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-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 values

  • Deliver Value for Customers
  • Take Ownership
  • Get Better Every Day
  • Think Critically, Move Fast
  • Dive Deep
  • Trust, and Challenge
  • Make it Happen
  • Achieve Extraordinary Results

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

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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