Staff Backend Engineer, Brightwheel
Platform
$165-237k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
Job no longer available
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$165-237k
+ 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
- You are comfortable taking into consideration both technical and business drivers to most efficiently deliver value.
- You are an excellent collaborator, and also accustomed to taking ownership and initiative as a technical leader on small teams (or even large teams).
- Most importantly, you are eager to have the opportunity to do all of this in a dynamic startup environment where scrappiness, flexibility, and creativity will be required every single day
- Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent
- API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages
- Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets
- Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures
Desirable
- Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems using Ruby on Rails
- Knowledge of overall security concepts with infrastructure and web
- Common database, caching, and web technologies e.g. nginx or equivalent, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc
- GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation e.g. Flux, ArgoCD
- CI/CD pipeline automation e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or equivalent
- Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
- Containerization and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join the platform team.
- You will be part of a team responsible for enabling a large number of engineering teams to operate independently and autonomously, move fast in delivering value to customers towards brightwheel’s vision, and limit the blast radius of their changes.
- Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs
- Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team
- Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues
- 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 cross-team to ensure we have a solid platform 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 drive brightwheel’s growth
- Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience
- Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams
- Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams
- Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team
- Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our 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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