Senior Software Engineer 1

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 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) team oversees PowerSchool’s comprehensive K-12 data & analytics tools that enable clients to allocate, budget, and manage K-12 finances. The team interfaces with other key departments to drive efficiency and optimization across our suite of products.

Essential Duties

• 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. Preference for familiarity with the full technical stack.
• Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality
• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase
• Ability and willingness to work long hours with little direction to meet given deadlines for work delivery
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in software engineer role on a maintenance and/or support team, 6+ years preferred.
• 4+ years’ Genero BDL experience is required, 6+ years preferred.
• Experience with the newest 4Js Genero BDL suite
• Experience with GitHub and Jira
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technologies required. Equivalent experience will be considered.
• Knowledge of current web client technologies including demonstrable proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, client MVC and .net.
• Proficient in SQL, Oracle experience a plus
• AI Copilot experience, preferred
• Angular experience, preferred
• Experience with eFinancePlus or another ERPs system, preferred
• Familiar with OWASP threats and mitigation techniques
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with American school customers.
• Ability to determine level of effort and document project/code specifications to such a degree that another engineer can interpret them.   
• Must have the ability to communicate cross functionally with customers, services, support, and engineering teams to deliver requirements. 
• Must have the ability to explain technical subject matter to non-technical individuals.
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong ability to work with current software design principles and concepts such as patterns, algorithms, data structures, dependency injection, MV**, SOA, n-tier architecture.
• Strong ability to manage a heavy workload with multiple projects, tight deadlines, and frequently changing priorities.

EEO Commitment

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.