PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Early education is one of the most important determinants of childhood outcomes, a critical support for working families, and a $175B market that remains underserved by modern technology. 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.

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We are a distributed team with remote employees across every US time zone, as well as select offices in the US and internationally.

You’re an AI-native, hands-on, mission-driven engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of product, people, execution, and cutting-edge tooling. You strive to use AI tooling throughout your team’s processes and practices to deliver value to customers. You’re passionate about building high-quality software, coaching engineers, and making decisions that balance long-term customer value with fast, iterative delivery. You care about helping preschools and childcare centers stay full, save time, and serve children and families better - not just about shipping “an AI feature.”

You don’t wait for perfect requirements — you validate hypotheses with prototypes, talk to customers and internal teams, define success metrics, and use working software to align others and drive decisions.

You understand hallucinations, safety, and evaluation, and you design data flows, UX, and guardrails around those constraints rather than ignoring them.

You handle sensitive school, educator, and family data with care and instinctively look for secure designs and least-privilege access patterns.

Lead a high-performing, full-stack team to deliver key product outcomes with quality and urgency.

Leverage AI and automation to meaningfully improve engineering velocity and operational excellence.

Grow and develop a team of engineers through regular coaching, feedback, and mentorship.

Drive a high bar for execution, quality, and delivery—ensuring consistency across planning cycles.

Implement engineering best practices within your team and partner with other teams to coordinate delivery.

Champion customer-centric decision making, ensuring every build aligns to real user needs.

3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping complex, high-impact software.

Leveraged AI tools and workflows to increase team velocity, quality, and operational excellence (e.g., development, testing, debugging, documentation, incident response).

Experience coaching engineers across a range of levels and helping them grow.

Passion for using AI and tooling to unlock team leverage and elevate quality.

Strong customer empathy—you advocate for their needs in every sprint, spec, and system.

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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