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Brightwheel is the largest, fastest growing, and most loved platform in early ed, trusted by millions of educators and families every day. We are a three-time Cloud 100 company, backed by top investors including Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Notable Capital, and Mark Cuban. \nOur Team\nOur team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a distributed team with remote employees across every US time zone, as well as select offices in the US and internationally.\nOur Mission and Opportunity\nEarly education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is high quality early education for every child. 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We are extending that foundation into a system of action-where software not only records what happened, but also anticipates work, recommends next steps, and takes safe, automated action on behalf of school leaders, teachers, families, and our internal teams.\nWe’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager who combines strong people leadership, technical judgment, and ownership of measurable outcomes. In this role, you will lead a team building customer-facing products that help school leaders, teachers, and families save time, make better decisions, and run stronger programs. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define what to build, then take it through production, adoption, and measurable customer impact.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead a full-stack engineering team from problem definition through production, measurement, and iteration.\n\nTranslate company goals into clear outcomes, investment choices, and a credible execution plan.\n\nSet the engineering strategy for quality, reliability, security, privacy, and operational health.\n\nShip AI-powered products and change how the team works with AI-not just add AI features.\n\nHire and develop strong engineers, set a clear bar, and act when the team or an individual is below it.\n\nMake capacity, dependencies, forecasts, and risks visible early.\n\nPartner early with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to turn customer problems into shipped product with measurable adoption and impact.\n\nOwn product and platform health across web, mobile, and backend systems, including rollout, reliability, privacy, and support impact.\n\nUse customer behavior, operational signals, and production data to decide what to build, simplify, or stop.\n\nYou may be a good fit if you\nHave led an engineering team that delivered measurable customer or business results.\n\nHave the technical depth to challenge architecture, product, data, reliability, and operational decisions without taking the work away from the team.\n\nHave set engineering strategy and made explicit investment and prioritization choices.\n\nHave shipped an AI-powered product or workflow to production and can explain the measurable result.\n\nHave hired and developed strong engineers, built succession, and handled performance issues directly.\n\nHave built trusted partnerships across Product, Design, and business teams while representing a clear Engineering point of view.\n\nStrong candidates may also have\nExperience in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or another operations-heavy domain.\n\nLed a material change in product direction, architecture, or operating model.\n\nBuilt production AI products, agents, evaluation systems, or automation.\n\nExperience building customer-facing products with measurable adoption or outcome impact.\n\nExperience using customer feedback and production data to improve web, mobile, or backend product outcomes.\n\nTechnology\nBackend: Ruby on Rails and Sidekiq.\n\nFrontend and mobile: React with TypeScript; native iOS with Swift and Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.\n\nData and infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, and AWS.\n\nAI and automation: AWS Bedrock and other hosted models, vector search, orchestration frameworks, and modern AI coding tools.\n\nBrightwheel 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.\nProtecting Our Applicants: Please be aware of recruiting scams impersonating Brightwheel. All legitimate communications come from @mybrightwheel.com addresses, and we never ask for payment or sensitive personal data as part of our hiring process. If you suspect fraudulent contact, reach out to . 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