Associate Software Engineer 1

PowerSchool® is a leading provider of education technology solutions, serving millions of students, teachers, and administrators across the globe. Our products are designed to help educators deliver personalized, data-driven instruction that improves student outcomes.  

As a full stack Associate Software Engineer at PowerSchool, you will be a critical member of our team, helping to develop and maintain the innovative software solutions that make our products so effective. We are looking for a smart, strong and creative candidate to help deliver that vision. Working here offers you a chance to help solve the most important challenges in education at scale in an environment that’s fun, collaborative, and innovative. Our software engineering practices promote a culture of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.  This position, under the general direction of the Lead and/or Manager, Software Engineering, will be responsible for technical and development support for our award-winning K-12 software. This role will be to implement, code, build, and test new features, maintain existing features, data models, customization, and reporting features for our products. 

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Demonstrated ability to contribute meaningfully on a scrum team as a full stack java junior engineer
• Work on a globally distributed cross-functional team where team member will play a critical role in developing, deploying, and observing your code in production along with supporting the team’s services through an on-call rotation
• Deliver consistent results in a rapid application agile development environment. Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students, and parents worldwide.
• Be comfortable bringing innovative ideas to the team and advocating for them. Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn recent technologies
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, using technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React, PHP, Java, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda (Serverless framework is a plus) or AWS tools/technologies
• Be willing to accept responsibility and be accountable for your own and the team's work.
• Ensure your knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even across teams and be willing to seek out help when needed.

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information Technologies required or equivalent experience 
• Strong CS fundamentals, including familiarity with data structures and asynchronous challenges in JavaScript
• Experience developing in at least one server-side language (such as node.js, PHP) and one client-side JS framework (such as JQuery, React or Angular)
• Experience testing software and working with datastores, SQL, and/or NoSQL
• Knowledge of current web client technologies including demonstrable proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Any work/project experience in software development process is a plus
• A growth mindset and high ownership and accountability over their work and results
• Experience with code review and the ability to confidently suggest improvements to the codebase
• Excellent written and verbal communication, problem-solving, and time management skills
• Strong ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions
• Strong ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment

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 accommodations@powerschool.com.