Senior AI-Native Software Engineer — Build Education Tools

Aimlroles; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwheel is seeking an AI-native software engineer to join our product engineering team. You will build customer-facing experiences that help school administrators, teachers, and families save time, make better decisions, and run stronger early education programs.

You will partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software with measurable impact. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, strong

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals across systems, data, APIs, and infra.
• Experience shipping production work from definition to launch.
• Familiarity with AI tools and agents as part of engineering workflow.
• Ability to explain velocity gains without lowering quality.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Use AI to improve development and product delivery.
• Prototype quickly and validate assumptions with users or internal teams.
• Raise the bar for quality, reliability, security, privacy, and observability.
• Build customer-facing workflows across core product areas.

Skills

2+ years experience

AI tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Security and privacy awareness

Communication across functions

Automation mindset

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Sidekiq

PostgreSQL

Redis

React

TypeScript

Swift

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

GitHub Actions

FluxCD

AWS S3

CloudFront

CloudWatch

SNS

AWS Bedrock

Vector search

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Brightwheel is seeking an AI-native software engineer to join our product engineering team. You will build customer-facing experiences that help school administrators, teachers, and families save time, make better decisions, and run stronger early education programs.

You will partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software with measurable impact. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, strong