\nOur Mission and Opportunity\nEarly education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.\n\n\nOur Team\nWe 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. \n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\nWho You Are\nBrightwheel is seeking an experienced  Staff Platform Engineer to join the platform team. You will be part of a team responsible for enabling a large number of engineering teams to operate independently and autonomously, move fast in delivering value to customers towards brightwheel’s vision, and limit the blast radius of their changes. You are comfortable taking into consideration both technical and business drivers to most efficiently deliver value. You are an excellent collaborator, and also accustomed to taking ownership and initiative as a technical leader on small teams (or even large teams). Most importantly, you are eager to have the opportunity to do all of this in a dynamic startup environment where scrappiness, flexibility, and creativity will be required every single day.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n* Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs\n* Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team\n* Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues\n* Provide input to both delivery and discovery - providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team\n* Be a steward of quality, scalability, security, and performance. You’ll work with other engineers cross-team to ensure we have a solid platform that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product\n* Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to drive brightwheel’s growth\n* Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience\n* Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams\n* Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams\n* Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team\n* Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team\n\n\n\n\nQualifications, Technical Skills\n* Must have experience:\n* Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent\n* API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages\n* Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets\n* Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures\n\nPreferred experience:\n* Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems using Ruby on Rails\n* Knowledge of overall security concepts with infrastructure and web\n* Common database, caching, and web technologies e.g. nginx or equivalent, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.\n* GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation e.g. Flux, ArgoCD\n* CI/CD pipeline automation e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or equivalent\n* Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi\n* Containerization and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS\n\n\n\n\n\n$165,000 - $237,000 a yearBrightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend.\nFor cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Multiple factors determine final offer amounts, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.\n\n\nBrightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Cloud, Ruby, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUS Only

\n\n\nDescription:\nWe are looking for Senior Front-End Engineers (full-time contractors) based in South America to join the engineering team to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Your focus would be on building frontend experiences in React. Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus, particularly in Ruby on Rails. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build experiences that matter to our customers. At Varsity Tutors, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to our customers. If you love your customers as much as we do, we'd love to hear from you.\nAbout Nerdy:\nNerdy (NYSE: NRDY), the parent company of Varsity Tutors, is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including Machine Learning and AI (Nerdy AI Learning Products - Press Release), to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, on-demand study support, and adaptive self-study. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com/.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy’s shareholder letters below explain the product and strategy and are the most effective way to learn about what the company is building.\n\nQ1-2024 Shareholder Letter\n\nQ4-2023 Shareholder Letter\n\nQ3-2023 Shareholder Letter\n\n\n\n \nQualifications:\n\n\nExperience with with React and Ruby on Rails is strongly preferred.\n\nExperience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy).\n\nFamiliarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).\n\nFamiliarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.\n\nUnderstanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.\n\nAptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.\n\nExperience developing websites that are visited by thousands of visitors daily.\n\nExperience with enhancing SEO performance.\n\nUnderstand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.\n\nComputer Science or related degree preferred.\n\nFluent in English.\n\n\n\n Responsibilities:\n\n\nWrite performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented.\n\nWrite automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code.\n\nDeploy large-scale web applications.\n\nHave a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better.\n\nBe a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations.\n\nCome ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.\n\nWork independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team.\n\nBe effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design.\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy Leadership Principles\nRelentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot\n \nBenefits:\n\n\nCompetitive Pay (USD)\n\n\n* \nFully Remote Position\n\n\n\nFlexible Paid Time Off\n\n\n* \nFree Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)\n\n\n* \nWork for a leading U.S.-based learning technology company\n\n\n* \nA once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!\n\n\n* \nA fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Ruby, SEO, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan José, San José, Costa Rica

\nOur Mission and Opportunity\nEarly education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.\n\n\nOur Team\nWe 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. \n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\nWho you are\nWe are seeking a senior software engineer who is technically well-rounded and passionate about their code's positive impact on people's lives. At Brightwheel, product engineers work closely with product and design and other business areas to deliver a platform that meets our teachers’ and parents’ biggest needs.\n\n\nEvery 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. You’ll bring a high degree of ownership and ability to execute.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Work alongside product and design to scope and implement new features or product lines\n* Share input on delivery and discovery–providing the team with new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism\n* 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\n* Design and architect new software systems, or introduce new technologies as appropriate, to support Brightwheel’s growth\n* Share knowledge and expertise across the engineering team\n\n\n\nQualifications, Skills, & Abilities: \n* 5+ years of professional experience, preferably in dynamic companies/teams\n* Proficiency in both contributing to and designing APIs using Ruby on Rails \n* Expertise in writing automated tests (unit/integration/functional)\n* Expertise in using Git (or VC equivalent)\n* Experience with a variety of codebase sizes and age\n* Experience with microservice or service-oriented architectures\n* Experience with modern webapps like React.js preferred\n* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) preferred\n\n\nCandidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We do not require prior knowledge of technologies in our stack, only a desire to learn them. At brightwheel, you may encounter:\n* Javascript\n* HTML\n* CSS\n* Ruby on Rails\n* PostgreSQL\n* Redis\n* React.js\n* CircleCI\n* GitHub Actions\n* Kubernetes\n* AWS-managed services, like Redshift and ECS\n\n\n\n\n$141,000 - $187,000 a yearBrightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend.\nFor cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Multiple factors determine final offer amounts, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.\n\nBrightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Education, Ruby, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUS Only