Senior Full Stack Engineer, Wonderschool

• We’re looking for engineers who take a customer-first mindset, love solving hard problems, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to build technology that has a real-world impact on families, educators, and communities
• 6+ years of relevant professional experience as full stack engineer
• Deep knowledge of at least one modern front-end framework (React, Angular, or Vue)
• Proficiency with back-end technologies (Node.js or similar, Java experience is a plus)
• Strong database skills (SQL) with Postgres experience
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to solve hard technical problems with creativity and speed
• Track record of working in highly collaborative teams and being a proactive, optimistic contributor
• Deep care for the customer and the product, with curiosity and hunger to make things better

Desirable

• We’re growing quickly and seeing strong demand from customers across the country. To meet that demand, we’re looking for highly motivated engineers based in the Bay Area who are excited to work in person from our San Francisco office
• As an engineer at Wonderschool, you’ll work closely with our product, design, data, and sales teams, as well as our CEO, Chris Bennett, who is based in SF and deeply involved in product development
• There are a number of exciting challenges ahead, including new 0 to 1 product builds, AI-powered features, and scaling our core platform
• At Wonderschool we are leaning into using the latest AI technologies to better meet the needs of our customers in this ever changing environment and welcome engineers looking to build with the latest tools
• Partner with product, design, data to build products and features customers love that help child care programs grow their business
• 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 a high percentage of test coverage across the codebase
• Proactively communicate progress to our product team and leadership
• Work closely with customers to understand their needs and workflows, and use that understanding to propose and build better solutions
• Actively contribute new ideas, propose solutions, and help improve our engineering processes, team culture, and product thinking
• Mentor and develop junior engineers and cross-functional teammates
• Help us scale the platform with forward-thinking approaches, embracing multi-tenant, service-oriented architecture and future-looking infrastructure
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve development velocity and user experience