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Engineering Manager, Education

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Our Mission and Opportunity
Early 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.

Our Team
We 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. 

We 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. 

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.

What You’ll Do

  • 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

Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities

  • 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.
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