We're hiring senior and staff engineers who want to build something worth building.
The 5th most common job in America is janitor or commercial cleaner. Millions of people go to work every day keeping the buildings you live, shop, and work in running. And the software to run these businesses — scheduling, operations, payroll, accounting — hasn't kept up.
Silicon Valley has ignored this industry for a simple reason; it's easy to overlook. That's exactly why we're here. For Gerald, it's also personal; his mom is a property manager, and he grew up being brought to properties and hearing about this world over the dinner table.
When the incumbents are weak and the market is enormous, you don't need to fight for marginal improvements. You can build something 10x better and watch customers immediately notice. That's the position we're in. Our customers aren't waiting to be convinced — they're asking us to do more.
We've done the work to truly understand this world. Gerald and Saagar have spoken to over 400 people in the industry, and we're interacting with dozens of companies every week. Between the founders and George, we can reach 100+ businesses in our networks directly. We know this customer. We know what they want.
Gerald Fong (CEO) graduated from Berkeley EECS in 2.5 years with highest honors, and was president of Hackers at Berkeley, the largest engineering club on campus at the time. He went on to work at Stripe and Dropbox, ran a successful YC-backed company, then joined Meta as a TL/staff engineer and PM/EM before starting BrightGo.
Saagar Deshpande (CTO) studied CS at Harvard, where he was president of the Harvard Computer Society. He went on to work at Asana and Microsoft before leading the engineering org at EDO, scaling it to eight figures in revenue.
George Boutsalis (Head of Growth) is the president and owner of Impact Cleaning, a family business employing over 1,000 people and doing $50M in revenue, and brings that perspective directly to BrightGo. Impact Cleaning services some of the largest stadiums in Canada, and counts brands like Four Seasons, Rolex, and Aritzia among its clients. He joined BrightGo because he lived the problem firsthand.
We've worked at places that do product well: Asana, Meta, Stripe. We've internalized what that actually means day-to-day; clear thinking, clean design, decisions made at the right level.
We've done the groundwork so you can focus on building. At any given time we have a clear, heavily validated view of the biggest problems to solve over the next 3–6 months, informed by sales and direct customer conversations. Big projects go through discussion, AI-assisted prototyping, and customer validation before they're eng-ready. You come in with a strong foundation to build on; not a blank slate, and not a rigid spec.
You make product decisions here — that's an expectation, not a perk. We don't hand out business deadlines; we want you to move opportunistically across a mix of big and small work. As you build context in the industry, you take on more design and product work alongside the engineering. And we hold a firm line on one-off custom work; we push back when something doesn't fit the product vision, and we stick to our principles.