Staff Software Engineer - Backend

September 17

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Daycare • preschool • Mobile & Web Tool • Child Care • Education

201 - 500

💰 $55M Series C on 2021-02

Description

• 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.

Requirements

• 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. • Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures preferred. • Experience with modern webapps like React.js preferred. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred.