Brightwheel is hiring a
Staff Software Backend Engineer-Tech Lead, Remote - United States

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