brightwheel · 10 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Growth
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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
Qualification
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Required
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
Preferred
Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures
Experience with modern webapps like React.js
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Benefits
Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
Generous paid parental leave
Flexible paid time off policy
Monthly wellness and productivity stipend
Learning & Development stipend
Company
brightwheel
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools and childcare providers.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$88.8MKey Investors
AdditionBessemer Venture PartnersNewSchools Venture Fund
2021-02-03Series C· $55M
2020-12-14Series Unknown· undefined
2018-10-02Series B· $21M
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