Brisk TeachingRemote
Staff Product Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
15 hours ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
ReactTypeScriptFrontend performance optimizationAccessibility semantic HTMLAccessibility ARIAAccessibility keyboard navigationAccessibility screen reader supportTelemetryobservability frontend loggingobservability error trackingobservability real user monitoringobservability DatadogBrowser APIsDOMReverse engineering of external surfacesCSS FlexboxCSS GridCSS responsive designDesign systemsshared component librariesTesting strategies unitTesting strategies integrationTesting strategies end-to-endPythonFlaskDatabase persistence architectureUser-centered mindsetGoAIAWSDatadogMentoring
About this role
Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale. The Staff Product Engineer will set the technical direction for the frontend architecture and lead complex UI work, ensuring high-quality user experiences for millions of teachers and students.
Responsibilities:
- Set technical direction for our frontend architecture, patterns, and tooling, and bring the team along with you
- Lead complex UI work in React and TypeScript across the Brisk Extension, Brisk Next, and Brisk Boost
- Push the Brisk Extension forward across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and beyond — DOM integration, content scripts, message passing, storage APIs, manifest evolution, and the browser APIs that make our in-the-tool experience possible
- Reverse-engineer external surfaces when the documented APIs don't go far enough — read the network calls, study the DOM, and find the seams that let us build integrations our competitors can't
- Stand up the telemetry, instrumentation, and active monitoring that keep us honest — frontend logging, error tracking, real user monitoring, and Datadog dashboards that tell us what's happening before users do
- Own frontend performance: bundle size, rendering paths, runtime profiling, and Core Web Vitals. Set the targets, build the dashboards, and ship the changes that move the numbers
- Champion accessibility as a baseline rather than an afterthought, so every teacher and every student can use what we build — semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support are expected, not bolted on
- Build and evolve the Brisk design system so the rest of the team ships faster and the product feels coherent across surfaces
- Define our testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, and keep the suite fast and trustworthy as the codebase grows
- Mentor engineers, raise the bar on code review, and partner closely with design, product, and the founding team to shape what we build
- Contribute to backend services in Python and Flask when a feature needs it, and stay close to the API contracts that connect frontend to back
- Devise database persistence architecture, including RDBMS schema or KVS key structure, to store data backing high traffic interfaces
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with the bulk of it spent in product development
- Hands-on experience with telemetry and observability — frontend logging, error tracking, real user monitoring, and tools like Datadog. You know what to instrument, what to alert on, and how to keep dashboards useful instead of noisy
- A track record of leading frontend performance work — measuring with the right tools, profiling carefully, and shipping changes that move user-facing metrics
- Accessibility expertise — semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, screen reader testing, and a clear point of view on what good a11y looks like in production
- Deep React and TypeScript expertise — you understand reconciliation, hooks, concurrent rendering, and the trade-offs between state-management approaches, and you know when to reach for which pattern
- Fluency with browser APIs and the DOM — performance observers, intersection observers, storage, message passing, and the architecture of modern browser extensions
- The instinct and ability to reverse-engineer external surfaces — you can pop open the network tab, trace undocumented endpoints, read minified code when you have to, and build clever, powerful integrations that aren't possible with documented APIs alone
- Strong CSS and layout fundamentals — Flexbox, Grid, the cascade, and responsive design without the workarounds
- Experience leading design systems and shared component libraries that other teams build on
- A point of view on testing — what to test, where to test it, and how to keep the suite fast as the codebase grows
- A history of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across a team
- A user-centered mindset and obsessive attention to detail — the small interactions matter to you, and you sweat them
- Experience shipping production browser extensions to the Chrome Web Store, Edge Add-ons, or Firefox
- Backend experience in Python and Flask, or comfort with AWS
- Prior experience in edtech, or building tools used directly by educators or students