Staff Android Engineer, Brightwheel
$165-237k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
Job no longer available
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$165-237k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You must have 5+ years of professional experience working with Android development in a fast-moving team setting
- You must have deep technical knowledge of the Android development stack, standard architectural patterns and its frameworks, including expertise in both Kotlin and Java
- Familiarity with Compose is a plus
- You should be confident in onboarding yourself to a project and operate with little guidance, but know when to ask for help
- You should be comfortable designing and consuming REST APIs
- You are comfortable with standard tools, such as GitHub, Google PlayStore, Firebase, and analytics tools
- Familiarity with AWS and/or cloud-based web architectures is a plus
- You focus on business impact; you focus on successful outcomes for you and your team and seek out ways to continuously improve
- You make pragmatic technology choices at work and keep up with new technologies on your own as well
- You have clear and concise verbal and written communication skills, and a proven record of collaborating with empathy
- You are a self-starter, and will take initiative and leadership when the situation warrants, but are also comfortable with delegating or letting others take ownership when appropriate
- You care deeply about your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you
- You experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; you drive engineering process and culture improvements
- You love to teach and learn from your peers
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Android Engineer to join the mobile team
- You will be part of a team responsible for maintaining and improving our mobile platform architecture, while working closely with other Product Engineering teams to build user-facing products and features
- Develop software solutions for complex product engineering projects towards a business goal; ship software that matters to our customers and to our company
- Be a steward of quality, scalability, and performance. You’ll propose, define and work on projects to ensure that we have a solid foundation that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product
- Lead complex projects that involve multiple engineers, sometimes across functions (e.g. backend/web)
- Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to shape and define features, while balancing platform-specific technical concerns, business goals and user impact
- Design and architect new software systems, or introduce new technologies as appropriate to support brightwheel’s growth
- 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
- 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 peers and junior engineers. Build trust and respect in the team
- Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Deliver Value for Customers
- Take Ownership
- Get Better Every Day
- Think Critically, Move Fast
- Dive Deep
- Trust, and Challenge
- Make it Happen
- Achieve Extraordinary Results
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
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