About the role
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 Frontend Engineer to join Brisk on a short-term contract (3 months) to drive a focused push on accessibility across our product. We've engaged an external accessibility audit firm to help us define accessibility priorities and their findings are landing now. We need a strong frontend engineer who can pick up that backlog, work through it methodically, and ship fixes that hold up under real screen reader and keyboard testing. This is hands-on, high-leverage work. You'll be deep in our React codebase and design system, fixing real issues that affect real teachers and students — including educators and learners who rely on assistive technology to do their jobs and learning every day. The Brisk Extension lives inside Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint online, and a growing list of other surfaces, so your work will touch the most visible parts of the product. YOU WILL: Work through the accessibility audit findings delivered by our external partner — triaging, prioritizing, and shipping fixes against a clear plan. Remediate WCAG 2.1 AA issues across the Brisk Extension and our web app: semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management, color contrast, and screen reader support. Partner closely with our design and engineering teams to upgrade components in the Brisk design system so accessibility is baked in for everything we ship after you leave. Verify fixes the way real users would experience them — keyboard-only flows, NVDA and VoiceOver passes, and other automated tooling. Pair with the audit firm to confirm remediations, close out tickets, and push back when their findings need clarification. Document the patterns you put in place so
