Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Brightwheel's fully remote team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to delivering high-quality early education technology that makes a positive impact on people's lives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in dynamic companies/teams
• Experience both contributing to and designing APIs using Ruby on Rails
• Expertise at writing automated tests (unit/integration/functional)
• Expertise in using Git (or VC equivalent)
• Experience with a variety of codebase sizes and age
• Experience with microservice or service oriented architectures
• Experience with PostgreSQL or query optimizations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred
• Experience with modern webapps like React.js is a bonus

Responsibilities

• Work alongside product and design to scope and implement new features or product lines
• 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 to ensure that we have a solid foundation 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 support brightwheel’s growth
• Share knowledge and expertise across the engineering team