Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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Our Mission and Opportunity
Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $100 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.

Our Team
We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US, and a small hub in Austin. Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban. 

We believe that everyone—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve— should be given the opportunity to learn and thrive, whatever their background may be. We celebrate diversity in all forms because it allows our team and the communities we serve to reach their full potential and do their best work.

Our Culture
We challenge ourselves every day to improve quality of life—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve. We care deeply about how our work enriches our customers now and scales for the future. 

We are owners and see our work through. We are growth minded, we iterate, and we seek to continuously improve. We are pragmatic, and we root decisions in data, logic, and intuition. Yet we value speed and a strong bias for action. We lean into collaboration, assume the best from everyone, and welcome differing opinions. We have audacious goals with a can-do attitude, break down walls to get stuff done, and are resourceful in order to accomplish more with less.

What You'll Do

  • Develop software solutions for complex product engineering projects towards a business goal; ship software that matters to our customers and to our company
  • Scale applications and services to handle over 1M requests per minute using pragmatic & distributed software architectures
  • Participate in the design and development of API products that are suited for consumption by specific audiences
  • Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality
  • Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues
  • Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience
  • Implement excellence in engineering process & culture across teams
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams effectively and with empathy; promote technical learning across teams
  • Mentor junior engineers. Build trust and respect in the team. 
  • Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team
  • Qualifications: Technical Skills

  • You are great at software design and you write high-quality code in general-purpose programming languages like Java, Python, and Ruby
  • You’re an expert at building APIs that makes it simple to interoperate with other code; your stakeholders love to use it
  • You’re experienced with scaling and shipping complex, distributed services in AWS or equivalent
  • You have a solid understanding and hands-on experience developing with Postgres/SQL and Redis or equivalent technologies
  • Qualifications: Essential People Skills

  • You make pragmatic technology choices at work and make time to learn in your slack time whenever appropriate. You don’t build science projects.
  • You care deeply about your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you; it’s obvious you’re having fun with your work and peers.
  • You are humble enough to use frameworks and technologies that aren’t your favorite but won’t have a materially negative impact; you strive to improve velocity with new frameworks & technologies
  • You experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; you drive engineering process and culture improvements
  • You focus on clear and concise communication because you understand it’s the biggest responsibility of your job as an engineer
  • You love to teach and learn from your peers
  • Brightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend.

    For cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies.

    In alignment with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual cash compensation for this role in Colorado is targeted at $170,000-$212,000. In alignment with the New York State Senate Bill S9427A and California State Senate Bill No. 1162, the annual cash compensation for this role in California and New York City is targeted at $200,000-$235,000. In alignment with Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act, the annual cash compensation for this role in Washington is targeted at $170,000-$235,000.

    Multiple factors, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise, determine final offer amounts. If you are applying from a different location and have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.

    Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.