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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff AI Software Engineer, Data Systems - **Company:** BRIGHTWHEEL LLC - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $154,000.0 - $237,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3, IOS Applications, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, Data Systems, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Github, PostgreSQL, Operational Data Store, Open Source Technology, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Search Technologies, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Kotlin, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Jetpack Compose, Front End Software Development, Cloudwatch, Automation Anywhere, User Identification, Docker - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/paenoranep ## About the Role * Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. * Have strong engineering fundamentals and can reason across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure. * Have owned production work from problem definition through launch and iteration. * Use AI tools and agents as a real part of your engineering workflow, not as a novelty. * Can explain how you have increased your own velocity without lowering your quality bar. * Have examples of automating your own work, your team's work, or broader company workflows. * Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning unclear problems into shipped software. * Communicate clearly and work well across functions. * Care deeply about privacy, security, reliability, and customer trust. Strong candidates may also have * Experience shipping AI-powered products, workflows, or internal tools to production. * Experience with retrieval, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, orchestration, or agent workflows. * Experience in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or another operations-heavy domain. * A portfolio of personal projects, internal tools, open-source work, writing, demos, or side projects that shows builder energy and taste. * Experience building data systems and integrations that made product, operational, or AI workflows more reliable, for consumers inside and outside the company. * Experience with data modeling, identity resolution, retrieval, provenance, governance, or AI-safe data access. * Experience delivering data to external enterprise or government partners through data shares or file exports, including the privacy and compliance handling that comes with sharing sensitive data. ## Description Our team builds the platform that thousands of early education programs rely on every day to run their business, serve families, and support children's growth. As a vertical SaaS company, brightwheel already sits in the middle of all the key workflows in early education: enrollment, billing, staffing, classroom planning, and family communication. We are now 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., We're looking for an AI-native software engineer to join our data engineering team. This is a builder role for someone who wants to make messy operational data useful, trustworthy, and ready for AI to reason over, and then put it to work: both as intelligent products in the hands of the people making decisions, and as trusted data delivered to the enterprise customers and government agencies that depend on it. You will build the data foundations, AI products, and standardized integrations across brightwheel's data systems that give teams and customers answers they can trust and act on. You will turn raw operational data into reliable systems that shorten the path from question to decision and raise the bar on how much people rely on the numbers, inside brightwheel and out. The best candidates do not wait for perfect requirements. They prototype quickly, validate assumptions with users or internal teams, define success metrics, and iterate in production. They use AI agents, coding tools, scripts, and automation to move faster, while raising the bar for quality, reliability, privacy, security, and customer trust. What You'll Do * Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. * Use AI to improve both how you build and what brightwheel can deliver. * Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and use working software to create clarity. * Raise the bar for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution. * Build data foundations that let brightwheel reason safely across customer, product, billing, classroom, and operational workflows. * Design systems for canonical data models, identity resolution, data contracts, retrieval, provenance, uncertainty handling, access control, and observability. * Build standardized integrations that deliver data to enterprise customers and government agencies at scale., * Backend: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq * Data: PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, Redis, and event and analytics pipelines * Frontend: React with TypeScript * Mobile: Native iOS with Swift and Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose * Cloud and Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, GitHub Actions and FluxCD for CI/CD, and AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and SNS * AI and Automation: AWS Bedrock and other hosted large language models, vector search, orchestration and agent frameworks, and modern AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex ## Related Videos - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [Hiring AI Native Talents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100268-hiring-ai-native-talents) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [What Industries Outside of AI Are Hiring The Most AI Experts?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/98-what-industries-outside-of-ai-are-hiring-the-most-ai-experts)