\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

\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

Join us as a senior engineer at the new Dealbase + goSeek! Working closely with the CTO, you'll work with a strong team to build what will become the premier site for value-seeking travelers, marrying algorithmic intelligence on the backend with exceptional user experience on the frontend. You'll simultaneously play a role in operating our current-generation (RoR) platform. \n\nWhy should you come work with us? (our top 10 list)\n\n1. We have a real vision.\n2. We know what we’re doing. We have 50+ years of collective online travel experience in a seven person team\n3. We have a good time.\n4. We have a track record of great leadership http://elliott.org/blog/in-a-mostly-ok-travel-industry-hotwires-bason-gets-an-a/\n5. None of us deal well with BS.\n6. We’re distributed. You can be too! We’d consider someone in any of Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas\n7. We’ll be competitive on comp and equity\n8. As a business, we have a solid risk profile. goSeek is funded with profits from the existing business, Dealbase. There’s no urgent need to – as an example – go raise additional money\n9. We work with fun stuff, including: ruby on rails, elasticsearch, redis, postgresql, mysql, aws, git, newrelic, responsive html/css, media queries, bootstrap, jquery, and handlebars\n10. We have a great, helpful board of directors and investor group who believe in the vision and team\n\nYou are …\n\n1. A full stack developer that knows RoR inside and out. But, always open to applying other tools when the job demands it\n2. Experienced launching new products in a small team environment\n3. As interested in the details of the business as you are in your code\n4. Passionate about delivering a superior customer experience\n5. Fast, but without sacrificing quality in the name of speed\n6. A believer in test driven development\n7. Comfortable sharing devops responsibilities\n8. A teammate who will take the time to give good feedback, and absorb feedback received\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $125,000 — $150,000/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 Francisco