• 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
• 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

Desirable

• Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join the platform team.
• You will be part of a team responsible for enabling a large number of engineering teams to operate independently and autonomously, move fast in delivering value to customers towards brightwheel’s vision, and limit the blast radius of their changes.
• 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