Staff Platform Engineer

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brightwheel

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#1 platform for early education

Daycare • preschool • Mobile & Web Tool • Child Care • Education

201 - 500

💰 $55M Series C on 2021-02

Description

• Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs • Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team • Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues • Provide input to both delivery and discovery - providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team • 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 • Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to drive brightwheel’s growth • Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience • Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams • Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams • Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team • Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team

Requirements

• Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent • API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages • Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets • Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures • You make pragmatic technology choices at work and make time to learn in your slack time whenever appropriate • You care deeply about the quality of your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you; it’s obvious you’re having fun with your work and peers • You strive to improve your velocity and the teams around you, with new frameworks & technologies • You experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; you drive engineering process, best practices, and culture improvements • You focus on clear and concise communication because you understand it’s the biggest responsibility of your job as an engineer • You love to teach and learn from your peers