Senior Software Engineer, Wonderschool
Elixir
$180-220k
Marketplace for child care
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Marketplace for child care
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure every child has access to early education that helps them realize their potential.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience as a backend or full stack engineer
- Previous experience with Elixir or other functional programming languages
- Previous experience with Postgres, with a focus on database design and optimization
- Writing high-quality and readable code with effective test coverage
- Interacting with product and engineering stakeholders; articulating and resolving concerns about potential side effects of a feature
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- Proven experience breaking down features into bitesize deliverables
- Experience working with relative estimations with a high degree of accuracy
Desirable
- Experience utilizing concurrent systems and patterns in Elixir or Erlang/OTP
- Previous experience with Phoenix LiveView
- Previous experience with the design/development of REST and GraphQL APIs
- Previous experience working with early stage startups
- Previous experience developing complex SaaS products
- Working with a distributed team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Marketplace team
- As Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in improving the experience of parents searching for child care on Wonderschool’s marketplace
- You will also collaborate closely with other Marketplace engineers to improve Wonderschool’s architecture and the overall quality of our codebase
- Fully own and deliver features from end to end, from requirements analysis, estimation, and project planning, to data modeling and feature delivery
- Debug production issues across the entire stack
- Participate in rotating engineering support
- Coordinate with QA to ensure quick bug resolution on critical issues
- Ensure high percentage of test coverage across the codebase
- Proactively communicate progress to our product team and leadership
- Learn our customer workflows and nuances within the early childcare industry
- Occasionally attend user interviews and onboarding sessions to give support and receive feedback directly from customers
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 funding and partnerships.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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
- Flexible PTO: 10 paid holidays, one week company winter break between Christmas and New Years and quarterly mental health refresh days
- Wellness: Monthly gym membership stipend
- Remote: Hybrid work environment and stipend for new employees to set-up your home office and a monthly wifi stipend
- Health: Up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
- Parental leave: Parental leave for employees after 6 months of employment
- Autonomy: We prioritize health and wellness to ensure employees can produce their best work while achieving their personal and professional goals
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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