What You’ll Do

• Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Use AI to improve both how you build and what brightwheel can deliver.
• Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and use working software to create clarity.
• Raise the bar for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution.
• Build customer-facing workflows across enrollment, billing, classrooms, staffing, family communication, onboarding, or other core product areas.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous customer problems into shipped software with measurable impact.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Have strong engineering fundamentals and can reason across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure.
• Have owned production work from problem definition through launch and iteration.
• Use AI tools and agents as a real part of your engineering workflow, not as a novelty.
• Can explain how you have increased your own velocity without lowering your quality bar.
• Have examples of automating your own work, your team’s work, or broader company workflows.
• Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning unclear problems into shipped software.
• Communicate clearly and work well across functions.
• Care deeply about privacy, security, reliability, and customer trust.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience shipping AI-powered products, workflows, or internal tools to production.
• Experience with retrieval, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, orchestration, or agent workflows.
• Experience in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or another operations-heavy domain.
• A portfolio of personal projects, internal tools, open-source work, writing, demos, or side projects that shows builder energy and taste.
• Experience building customer-facing product experiences with measurable adoption or outcome impact.
• Experience improving web or mobile outcomes through architecture, tooling, shared patterns, or production feedback.

Technology

• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq
• Data: PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, Redis, and event and analytics pipelines
• Frontend: React with TypeScript
• Mobile: Native iOS with Swift and Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Cloud and Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, GitHub Actions and FluxCD for CI/CD, and AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and SNS
• AI and Automation: AWS Bedrock and other hosted large language models, vector search, orchestration and agent frameworks, and modern AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex

Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.

Compensation Range: $133K - $189K