\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

\nAbout the role\n\nChime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the technology groups responsible for powering our bank-account features, mobile applications, platforms, service architecture, and third-party integrations. This team is responsible for major components of new feature development and the scalability of Chime’s infrastructure as we accelerate our growth.\n\nThe base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $167,200 and up to $232,200. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.\n\nIn this role, you can expect to \n\n\nWork closely with our engineering leaders to Identify bottlenecks in our existing software infrastructure and guide the team through a path forward to improve and scale it. Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.\n\nDesign, develop, test, and scale new and existing consumer product features.\n\nBuild, lead and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers to solve these problems while being hands on. Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement. Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with team and individuals.\n\nEstablish team objectives in alignment with business goals. Work very closely with the Product Managers to launch solutions for the users.\n\nContribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime’s engineering leadership team.\n\nUse Ruby on Rails, MySQL - our tech stack\n\n\n\n\nTo thrive in this role, you have\n\n\nExperience with Service Oriented Architectures.\n\nAn experienced software engineer and an effective people manager.\n\nInterest in pushing the envelope to explore new technologies and architectures that can have a large return on investment.\n\nThe desire to learn and dive into the deepest levels of how things work.\n\nThe desire to make a huge difference at a growing start-up.\n\nThe ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals.\n\n\n\n\nA little about us\n\nAt Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We’re passionate about developing solutions and services to empower people to succeed. Every day, we start with empathy for our members and stay motivated by our desire to support them in ways that make a meaningful difference. \n\nWe created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*-- founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, transparent, and fair. Chime helps unlock the access and ability our members need to overcome the systemic barriers that block them from moving forward. By providing members with access to liquidity, rewards, and credit building, our easy-to-use tools and intuitive platforms give members the ability to have more control over their money and to take action toward achieving their financial ambitions.\n\nSo far, we’re well-loved by our members and proud to have helped millions of people unlock financial progress, whether they started a savings account, bought their first car or home, opened a business, or went to college. Every day, we’re inspired by our members’ dreams and successes, big and small. \n\nWe’re uniting everyday people to unlock their financial progress—will you join us? \n\n*Chime partners with The Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC, that power the bank accounts used by Chime Members.\n\nWhat we offer\n\n\n* 💰 Competitive salary based on experience\n\n* ✨ 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits\n\n* 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days \n\n* 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice\n\n* 🧠 Mental health support with therapy and coaching through Modern Health\n\n* 👶 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents\n\n* 👪 Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with up to $10k in reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.\n\n* 💻 Hybrid work perks, like UrbanSitter and Kinside for backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit\n\n* 🏢 A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location to ensure you stay connected to your work and teammates, whether you’re local to one of our offices or remote\n\n* 🎉 In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!\n\n* 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress\n\n\n\n\nWe know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.\n\nWe hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. \n\nTo learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.\n\n#LI-DB1 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Music, Ruby, Mobile and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $117,500/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, California, United States

LOCATION: Remote within the US\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale the DailyKos platform. You will be hands-on and will actively collaborate with a team of 13 to guide projects, implement best practice solutions, champion the elimination of technical debt, and translate requirements into delivered products. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, SASS, JavaScript, React/Redux, Nginx, Varnish, and AWS/S3/Cloudfront. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love for you to join our passionate and dedicated team.\n\nOur offices are in Oakland, CA and Washington D.C., however, we are open to fully remote applicants.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Collaborate with coworkers across the organization to scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex challenges in the Daily Kos platform\n- Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality product releases in suitable timeframes\n- Actively participate in architectural planning and implementation\n- Effectively communicate technical vision\n- Evangelize best practices internally and externally\n- Clearly communicate technical issues and tie work to company objectives\n- Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind and do critical R&D\n- Persistently debug tough issues, finding a root cause or viable workaround\n- De-escalate conflicts and build consensus between team members about technical matters\n\nExperience\n\n- Strong experience with core web development technologies (Advanced JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks)\n- At least 5 years experience with Ruby on Rails\n- At least 2 years experience with React\n- Working knowledge of MySQL and pgSQL, possessing the ability to design, understand and edit database queries, optimization and profiling\n- Familiarity with AWS tool chain\n- Strong experience with Sidekiq\n- Strong experience with caching with a preference for direct experience with any of the following: redis, memcache, redis and/or varnish\n- Experience with large and complex code bases, utilizing API design techniques to help keep code clean and maintainable\n- A solid understanding of Linux\n\nQualifications\n\n- Deep understanding of modern web application best practices\n- Thought leader highly skilled in making technical decisions, influencing architecture, and prioritization across multiple teams\n- Ability to anticipate technical challenges, explore alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly\n- In-depth understanding of full stack; can navigate and make legacy code maintainable\n- Focused on defining patterns and operational guidelines for your domain\n- Capable of successfully planning and delivering complex, multi-team, or system projects\n- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization\n- Able to reduce unneeded complexity\n- Comfortable with the Agile and Lean development process\n- Able to actively diagnose and address data scaling and optimization issues\n- Ambitious spirit and focus on delivering value into customers hands with excellent communication\n- Familiarity with principles of good user experience\n- Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n- Familiarity with the Daily Kos application and commitment to become a platform expert\n- Willingness to travel occasionally for events or retreats\n\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nBenefits:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Lead Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, professional development stipend, company-paid holidays, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees. \n\nPlease mention the word **RECOMMENDATIONS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States