Staff Product Engineer

ABOUT US:

Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale. Our Classroom Intelligence tools connect teachers, students, and curriculum—making meaningful learning happen in classrooms every day. We believe the best technology is cutting-edge, respects teachers’ time, integrates into real classrooms, and helps educators focus on what matters most.

Since launching, Brisk has experienced rapid growth. Over 2 million teachers use our platform, and we partner with districts and schools nationwide to transform how educators teach and how students learn.

We're backed by leading venture and edtech investors including Bessemer Venture Partners (Shopify, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Perplexity) and Owl Ventures (Newsela, Quizlet, MasterClass), with a team spanning top AI companies and real classroom experience.

We're a fast-moving, collaborative team driven by a shared commitment to educator impact and product excellence. Our values—urgency, ownership, and focus—shape how we build and who we are.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

We're looking for a Staff Product Engineer to set the bar for the craft, architecture, and quality of everything teachers and students see and touch in Brisk. You'll own the frontend at a deep technical level — the React patterns we lean on, the browser-extension surface that brings Brisk into the tools educators already use, and the performance and accessibility standards we hold the product to.

This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence. You'll shape direction across our frontend codebase, raise the bar through code review and mentorship, and ship features that millions of teachers rely on every day. The Brisk Extension lives inside Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint online, and a growing list of other surfaces, which means the frontend is, in many ways, the product itself.

YOU WILL:

• 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.

YOU HAVE:

• 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.

BONUS:

• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity

At Brisk, we believe that diverse perspectives make better teams and stronger products. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.