Brightwheel is hiring a
Staff Software Backend Engineer-Tech Lead, Remote - United States
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Summary
The job is for a Staff Software Engineer at Brightwheel, a fast-moving, fully remote team in the early education technology sector. The role involves technical leadership, designing new software systems, mentoring engineers, and working on a learning platform used by administrators, teachers, and parents to support student growth and development.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced early- or mid-stage startups
- Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems 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 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
Responsibilities
- Be a technical leader working 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservice or service oriented architectures preferred
- Experience with modern webapps like React.js preferred
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred
Benefits
- Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous paid parental leave
- A flexible paid time off policy
- A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
- A Learning & Development stipend
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