Senior Software Engineer I

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Research & Development (R&D) team is the technical talent at the heart of our product suite, overseeing the product development lifecycle from concept to delivery. From engineering to quality assurance to data science, the R&D team ensures our customers seamlessly use our products and can depend on their consistency. This role will implement, code, build, and test new features, maintain existing features, and develop reports including components, data models, customization, and reporting features for our products. Additionally, this position will gather and refine  

requirements, develop designs, implement, test, and document solutions to produce the highest quality product and customer satisfaction. 

Description

The Software Engineering team is a group of full stack developers who design, develop, and maintain our products, tools, and infrastructure.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions  
• Develop scalable web applications and services  
• Investigate and resolve issues reported for a large web application following best practices such as authoring or updating unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms  
• Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance of web application  
• Assist with security updates to web application  
• Perform upgrades to 3rd party libraries and tools used by the web application  
• Implement new web application software features and products following best practices such as authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms  
• Specialize in client or server side web application development as a member of a project team  
• Familiarity with the full technical stack  
• Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality  
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase  
• Train and mentor new and more junior software engineers  
• Other duties as assigned   

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications 
• Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and React.js 
• Experience or willingness with developing serverless architecture 
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) 
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid 
• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today. 
• Experience owning the responsibility for delivering frontend and backend work as well as coordinating with QA, Design, and PM 
• Willingness to accept responsibility not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written 
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment. 
• One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus. 
• 1years of experience in product or SaaS development. 
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks. 

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.
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