Our Mission and Opportunity

Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is high quality early education for every child. We pursue this by directly supporting teachers in the classroom, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and enabling the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education industry. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education, trusted by tens of thousands of providers and millions of educators and families.

Our Team

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Mark Cuban Notable Capital, and others.

Who You Are

Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our full-stack Education team, which is building a best-in-class learning platform used by admins, teachers, and parents to support the growth and development of their students and children. You will launch brand new features and products to enable administrators and teachers to plan and deliver engaging and enriching activities, document development, and share progress with guardians and other stakeholders. In addition, your team will be responsible for building great software across our stack, starting by collaborating with product and design on what to build and why, all the way through to shipping and operating the software you craft, all in a period of massive growth!

Our stack is comprised of React, Rails, Postgres on RDS, Redis, Sidekiq, and others running on a finely-tuned Kubernetes cluster in AWS powering a web experience and native iOS and Android apps. We believe in using pragmatic, battle-hardened technologies that are right for the job.

• Lead a full-stack team of passionate, dedicated engineers to rapidly deliver projects while balancing quality
• Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver against pod goals and roadmaps
• Maintain accountability for the architecture, development, testing, and reliability of for featuresets within the pod’s ownership
• Develop and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring
• Drive process improvements to increase product velocity while simultaneously raising the bar for quality and operational excellence
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Brightwheel’s engineering management team

• You bring 2+ years of experience managing a full-stack product engineering team of 4+ engineers, and have a track record of shipping critical customer-facing features
• You have experience delivering zero-to-one products as well as enhancing existing products and technologies
• You have experience hiring engineers at various levels including Sr Engineers and above
• You have a pragmatic approach to developing and evolving right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
• You have experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver customer-facing solutions
• You have strong technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially as it pertains to scalability and reliability
• You work very well cross-functionally and are able to make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating a diversity of perspectives
• You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and different levels within the company
• You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging

Brightwheel 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.