Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Growth

Summary

Join a fully remote team as a staff software engineer and contribute to enabling high-quality early education for every child by giving teachers more time with students each day, engaging parents in their kids' development, and supporting small businesses in the $175 billion early education market.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced early- or mid-stage startups
• Proficiency in both contributing to and designing APIs using Ruby on Rails or similar technologies
• Expertise in writing automated tests (unit/integration/functional)
• Expertise in using Git (or VC equivalent)
• Experience with 3rd party integrations
• Experience with variation testing
• Experience with a variety of codebase sizes and ages
• Proficiency with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Experience with architecting distributed systems for scalability and reliability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures preferred
• Experience with modern webapps like React.js preferred
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead projects on our School Operations team - helping ensure brightwheel works exceptionally well for our customers
• 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
• Mentor and help to grow the engineering team