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.
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.
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:
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions
Learns about existing applications, architecture and functionality and asks questions to learn about these
Participates in team level discussions such as refinement and planning meetings, understand stories, bugs presented by other senior members and asks questions towards getting better understanding of these requirements. Helps team in finding unknowns and doing better estimations of upcoming work.
Converts problems into program. Comes up with basic designs and learns through reviews performed by other senior members in the team
Writes efficient and clean code for building large scale data and web applications
Pays attention to performance and optimal algorithms and proactively raised questions towards scalability of the code written
Writes automated unit tests and secure code. Writes code that is easy to debug, fix and enhance in future by yourself and other team members.
Proactively raises flags whenever encounters a situation that can be vulnerable proactively
Has good in person and virtual presence during business hours.
Is available on demand for critical situation as planned by senior members in advance
Raises voice and puts up healthy debates towards improving existing processes that lead to higher efficiencies for team
Other duties as assigned
2+ years’ experience in software engineer role
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technologies with evidences of significant coding projects done yourself during engineering period is required
Experience with agile development methodologies, continuous integration, and version control systems such as Git or SVN.
Has done enough hands on programming both on front end and back end technologies and has built end to end applications at personal or small scale
Has learned from past work towards building robust and defensive applications with focus on optimizations and security
Knowledge and experience in any two backend programming languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, Server side JavaScript
Has been exposed to solving performance problem either at web applications or backend applications.
Knowledge and experience of any one cloud services such as AWS or Azure
Proficient in any one RDBMS and non-RDBMS storage experience a plus
Has designed simple database schemas, class diagrams and code organization for easy maintenance and enhancement of code
Strong written and verbal communication skills. High collaboration within teams. ·
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 accomodations@powerschool.com.
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