Remote Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Description:

• Brightwheel is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack to join their remote team in the US.
• The mission of Brightwheel is to provide high-quality early education for every child, supporting teachers, engaging parents, and enabling small businesses in the early education industry.
• The role involves leading the Activation team to ensure customers can quickly get up and running on the Brightwheel platform.
• Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, delivering software solutions, operating in an agile environment, and collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to implement new features.
• The engineer will advocate for technical advancements, ensure quality, scalability, security, and performance, and design new software systems or introduce new technologies.
• Mentorship across the engineering team is also a key aspect of the role.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 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 is required.
• Experience with various codebase sizes and ages is necessary.
• Proficiency with AWS or other cloud platforms is essential.
• Candidates should have experience architecting distributed systems for scalability and reliability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences are required.
• Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures is preferred.
• Familiarity with modern web applications like React.js is preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is preferred.
• A strong interest in leveraging AI to improve engineering efficiency is desired.
• Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and prior knowledge of the technologies in the stack is not required.

Benefits:

• Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary ranging from $142,500 to $237,000, equity, and benefits.
• The benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employees receive generous paid parental leave and a flexible paid time off policy.
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend is provided.
• A Learning & Development stipend is also included to support employee growth.
• Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.