Our Mission and OpportunityEarly 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 childby 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 TeamWe are a highly distributed team supporting fully remote employees across every time zone in the US. We also have hubs in Austin, Denver, and San Francisco. 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 everyonefrom 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 CultureWe challenge ourselves every day to improve our quality of lifefrom 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 medium complexity product engineering projects towards a business goal; ship software that matters to our customers and to our company
- Participate in scaling applications and services to handle over 1M requests per minute using pragmatic amp; distributed software architectures
- Improve software development tooling enabling self, and others on immediate team or discipline to work more effectively
- Identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues
- Analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve performance for a great customer experience
- Implement excellence in engineering process amp; culture within your team
- Collaborate with product team effectively and with empathy; promote technical learning within your team and discipline
- Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team
Qualifications: Technical Skills- You are good at software design and you write high-quality code in general-purpose programming languages like Java, Python, and Ruby
- You have experience with shipping high performance, medium complexity applications, and services in AWS or equivalent
- You have a solid understanding and hands-on experience developing with Postgres/SQL 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 amp; 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
Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We do not require prior knowledge of technologies in our stack, only a desire to learn them.
Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package (base salary, equity and benefits) with a strong emphasis on equity-based compensation (ownership in brightwheel). For cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based o