Software Engineering Manager, Brightwheel

$170-235k

Salary information is for applicants based in Colorado, New York, California, Washington only

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Senior level

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Online platform for early education management

Job no longer available

Online platform for early education management

501-1000 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Job no longer available

$170-235k

Salary information is for applicants based in Colorado, New York, California, Washington only

React

AWS

Kubernetes

Redis

iOS

Android

Sidekiq

Postgres

RDS

Rails

Senior level

Remote from US

501-1000 employees

B2BEducationCommunicationSaaS

Company mission

To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have experience managing a full-stack product engineering team of 4+ engineers and have a track record of shipping critical customer-facing features
You have experience hiring engineers at various levels, including Sr Engineers and above
You have a pragmatic approach to developing the right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
You have substantial technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially regarding scalability and reliability
You work well cross-functionally and can make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating diverse perspectives
You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging
You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility

What the job involves

Manage a full-stack team of passionate, dedicated engineers to ensure efficient delivery of projects on time and at quality
Work closely with the Product and Design teams to develop roadmaps and goals and refine processes to improve collaboration
Own the architecture, development, testing, and operation for a set of features
Up-level and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring as appropriate
Drive process improvements to increase product velocity while simultaneously raising the bar for quality and operational excellence
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Brightwheel’s engineering management 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. Brightwheel's 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. It was quick to adapt to school closures too by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. And on top of this, it also caters to childcare in lower-income areas with a freemium model. Making its a go-to platform for early education.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Trustpilot (1.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2021

$55m

SERIES C

Oct 2018

$21m

SERIES B

Total funding: $88.8m

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dave Vasen

(Founder & 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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