Engineering Manager, Brightwheel
Education
$142-237k
+ equity
Online platform for early education management
Open for applications
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$142-237k
+ 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 bring 2+ years of 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 delivering zero-to-one products as well as enhancing existing products and technologies
- You have experience hiring engineers at various levels including Sr Engineers and above
- You have a pragmatic approach to developing and evolving right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
- You have experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver customer-facing solutions
- You have strong technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially as it pertains to scalability and reliability
- You work very well cross-functionally and are able to make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating a diversity of perspectives
- You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and different levels within the company
- You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our full-stack Education team, which is building a best-in-class learning platform used by admins, teachers, and parents to support the growth and development of their students and children
- You will launch brand new features and products to enable administrators and teachers to plan and deliver engaging and enriching activities, document development, and share progress with guardians and other stakeholders
- In addition, your team will be responsible for building great software across our stack, starting by collaborating with product and design on what to build and why, all the way through to shipping and operating the software you craft, all in a period of massive growth!
- Our stack is comprised of React, Rails, Postgres on RDS, Redis, Sidekiq, and others running on a finely-tuned Kubernetes cluster in AWS powering a web experience and native iOS and Android apps. We believe in using pragmatic, battle-hardened technologies that are right for the job
- Lead a full-stack team of passionate, dedicated engineers to rapidly deliver projects while balancing quality
- Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver against pod goals and roadmaps
- Maintain accountability for the architecture, development, testing, and reliability of for featuresets within the pod’s ownership
- Develop and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring
- 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. 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 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
Articles
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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