Senior Full Stack Engineer

Our Team

We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. 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. From decision making, to how we operate, we ground ourselves in our Leadership Principles every day. 

Who you are

We are seeking a senior software engineer who is well-rounded technically, and passionate about the positive impact their code can make in people's lives. Brightwheel engineers work closely with product and design, as well as with other areas of the business to deliver a platform that meets our teachers’ & parents’ biggest needs.
Every engineer at Brightwheel is afforded a high degree of ownership and autonomy. We are a lean, fast-moving team and value individuals who can optimize for being impactful while considering both technical and business drivers.

What You'll Do

• Work alongside product and other engineers to implement new features, optimize software design, optimize user interfaces, and mitigate technical debt for the operational side of our platform.
• Operate in an agile environment to quickly deliver value to our go-to-market teams.
• Expand understanding of our customers’ needs to deliver software solutions to address those needs.
• 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 internal customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product. 
• Design new software systems, or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to support brightwheel’s growth.
• Share knowledge and expertise across the engineering team

Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities:

• Must be located in Latin America
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience working in agile companies/teams
• Experience developing in backend frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, or Golang
• Proficiency in both contributing designing and optimizing APIs
• Experience with frontend frameworks like React or Angular
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g. unit, integration, & e2e)