Tech Lead/Staff Engineer, Wonderschool
Payments
$180-220k
4+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Marketplace for child care
Open for applications
Marketplace for child care
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-220k
4+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower early educators to build sustainable businesses that meet the unique needs of families across the nation.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer who is passionate about contributing to our mission and purpose through scaling payment processing systems
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with a focus in developing full stack applications and familiarity with a wide range of technologies and programming concepts. Our stack happens to include Typescript, NestJS, React, and Elixir/Phoenix
- Previous experience with our current technology stack is not required but helpful
- Prior experience and expertise in working with payment gateways, especially familiarity with Stripe or other similar payment processing platforms
- Proven experience with high-traffic web apps and APIs, with a focus on observability, performance monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Strong proficiency in NoSQL data engines like Firestore and SQL data engines like Postgres, with a focus on database design and optimization
- Overall understanding of serverless computing and Platform as a Service providers such as Firebase
- Extensive experience with cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform, including deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, especially Kubernetes clusters, API gateways, and service meshes
- Understanding of modern DevOps practices and experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to tackle complex challenges
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across teams
- Detail-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code
Desirable
- Previous experience with functional programming languages
- Previous experience supporting Highly Available services with 99.99% uptime or higher
What the job involves
- You will play a crucial role in achieving our team’s core mission, to develop and maintain systems and processes that ensure high levels of reliability, security, and interoperability across the Wonderschool platform
- Your expertise in the delivery of high-quality software will be essential in securing and simplifying the financial workflows of child care providers across the Wonderschool platform
- Lead and manage large, complex projects independently by analyzing requirements, breaking down tasks, and planning the development of mission-critical features
- Leverage extensive experience with payment processing systems to design and build out the Wonderschool Payments Platform with reliability, stability, and efficiency
- Architect asynchronous systems that process large volumes of data that support accuracy, auditability, and observability
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, product managers, designers, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and project timelines
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, working closely with the team to identify and implement simple and effective solutions
- Deliver high-quality, performant code and deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving traffic
- Communicate technical design effectively with developers of all levels
- Implement and optimize databases, ensuring data integrity and efficient performance
- Utilize Google Cloud Platform to design and deploy scalable cloud infrastructure
- Learn new languages and technologies as required to get the job done
- Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback
- Continually improve our engineering standards in code reviews, advocating for better patterns and technologies, and making a meaningful impact on our development experience and tooling
- Promote a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing within the team
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 series B funding that is being invested into scaling access to flexible care.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
- Unlimited paid time off, paid holidays, and mental wellness days
- Hit the gym, relax, or de-stress using monthly stipends
- Remote - Work where you want, our team is distributed across the Americas
- Health - Up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
- Competitive parental leave policies for individuals after 6 months of employment
- Autonomy
Company values
- Children First - We serve everyone whose purpose is to provide early education and care to children; We constantly seek to understand the needs of children, parents and providers; We build products and services that focus on developing and retaining trust
- Lead with Empathy - We treat each other and our customers with respect; We deliver effective feedback with kindness, have difficult conversations with grace, and focus on the growth of our teammates; We work to create a diverse, safe, productive, and fun work environment
- Exceed Expectations - We strive to do the best work of our lives; We push the limits of the goals we set and the experiences we deliver; We work smart and put in the effort
Company HQ
Northwest Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
Articles
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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