Staff Software Engineer, Brightwheel
Backend - Education
$154-237k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$154-237k
+ 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
- A builder with a growth mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, seek continuous improvement, and embrace learning from wins and misses
- A true owner. You see things through end-to-end, and take accountability for delivering high-quality solutions that last
- Customer-focused. You work backwards from the educator and student experience, measuring success by outcomes, not just activity
- A collaborative partner. You work closely with Product, Design, and stakeholders, engaging with differing perspectives to arrive at the best solution
- A mentor and multiplier. You share your knowledge, elevate team practices, and help others succeed alongside you
- Delivered large-scale backend systems that improved customer-facing experiences and business-critical operations. 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced early- or mid-stage startups
- Designed and implemented distributed systems for scalability and reliability, with proficiency in languages such as Ruby on Rails, Python, or Go
- Worked with Stripe or similar billing systems, building and maintaining integrations that supported growth and operational excellence
- Contributed to or led migration efforts in evolving codebases, improving architecture while supporting ongoing product delivery
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to take features from concept to launch, balancing speed with long-term value
- Mentored other engineers, established best practices, and helped teams improve velocity and execution
- Bonus: experience with microservices/service-oriented architectures and full-stack development using React.js
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who is technically well-rounded and motivated by the positive impact their work can have in people’s lives. Our Education team is building a best-in-class learning platform used by administrators, teachers, and parents to support the growth and development of their students and children. In this role, you’ll launch brand-new features and products that empower educators to plan and deliver engaging activities, track student development, and share progress with families
- Partner with Product and Design to scope, design, and deliver impactful new features in the Education product line
- Architect, refine, and scale backend systems, introducing new technologies and patterns that strengthen the foundation of our backend architecture
- Own and evolve brightwheel’s eCommerce systems and integrations- everything we need to get brightwheel’s curriculum into the hands of teachers and students
- Collaborate across functions to ensure technology decisions align with business goals and customer needs
- Contribute to technical direction for the team, leading by example with high-quality code and thoughtful reviews
- At Brightwheel you will encounter:
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- React.js
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- AWS managed services, like Redshift and ECS
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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