Senior Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Education Platform

Brightwheel; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwheel is reinventing early education software with AI-powered workflows that anticipate needs and automate safe actions for school leaders, teachers, and families. We’re seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack team and partner with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to deliver measurable impact.

You will own product quality, reliability, and security while guiding architecture and operational health across web, mobile, and backend systems.

Qualifications

• Led an engineering team delivering measurable customer or business results.
• Demonstrated depth to challenge architecture, product decisions, data reliability, and operations.
• Set engineering strategy with explicit investment and prioritization choices.
• Shipped an AI-powered product or workflow to production with measurable impact.
• Hired and developed strong engineers, built succession, and managed performance issues directly.
• Built trusted partnerships across Product, Design, and business teams with a clear Engineering POV.

Responsibilities

• Lead a full-stack engineering team from problem definition through production, measurement, and iteration.
• Translate company goals into clear outcomes, investment choices, and a credible execution plan.
• Set the engineering strategy for quality, reliability, security, privacy, and operational health.
• Ship AI-powered products and change how the team works with AI — not just add AI features.
• Hire and develop strong engineers, set a clear bar, and act when the team or an individual is below it.
• Make capacity, dependencies, forecasts, and risks visible early.
• Partner with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to turn customer problems into shipped product with measurable adoption and impact.
• Own product and platform health across web, mobile, and backend systems, including rollout, reliability, privacy, and support impact.
• Use customer behavior, operational signals, and production data to decide what to build, simplify, or stop.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical depth

Engineering strategy

AI product delivery

People development

Cross-functional partnerships

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Sidekiq

React with TypeScript

Swift

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes on EKS

AWS

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Brightwheel is reinventing early education software with AI-powered workflows that anticipate needs and automate safe actions for school leaders, teachers, and families. We’re seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack team and partner with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to deliver measurable impact.

You will own product quality, reliability, and security while guiding architecture and operational health across web, mobile, and backend systems.