Description:

The company Brightwheel aims to enable high-quality early education for every child by providing teachers with more time with students, engaging parents, and supporting small businesses in the early education market.
The team at Brightwheel is fully remote, passionate, talented, and customer-focused, with a diverse and inclusive work environment.
They are looking for a staff software engineer to join their School Operations team, focusing on improving the product experience for educators by simplifying routine tasks and enhancing engagement with students.
The role involves leading projects, collaborating with product and design teams, ensuring quality, scalability, security, and performance, designing new software systems, sharing knowledge, and mentoring the engineering team.
Qualifications include 5+ years of professional experience, proficiency in Ruby on Rails, expertise in automated testing and Git, experience with 3rd party integrations and AWS, strong communication skills, and familiarity with modern web technologies.
Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and the company values a desire to learn new technologies.

Requirements:

5+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced early- or mid-stage startups.
Proficiency in contributing to and designing APIs using Ruby on Rails or similar technologies.
Expertise in writing automated tests (unit/integration/functional) and using Git.
Experience with 3rd party integrations, variation testing, and codebase sizes and ages.
Proficiency with AWS or other cloud platforms, architecting distributed systems, and strong communication skills.
Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures, modern webapps like React.js, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred.

Competitive compensation package ranging from $142,000 to $237,000 a year, including base salary, equity, and benefits.
Benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, flexible paid time off policy, monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and Learning & Development stipend.
Internal pay equity, standard compensation ranges based on function, level, and location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies.
Commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, equal opportunity employer, and consideration for all applicants regardless of race, gender, orientation, or background.