Brightwheel is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Software Engineer at Brightwheel, a fully remote company with employees across all US time zones. The role involves leading projects on the School Operations team, working alongside product and design, providing input to delivery and discovery, ensuring quality, scalability, security, and performance of the software, designing and architecting new systems or introducing new technologies, sharing knowledge and expertise, mentoring, and growing the engineering team.

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

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

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