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 Support team provides a broad spectrum of training and technical support for our customers. From accurately analyzing and troubleshooting, to diagnosing and resolving software or system issues, this team offers world-class technical support with a strong focus on maximizing 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:

• Developing assessment loading import tools using a combination of JavaScript, JSON, SQL and Python
• Troubleshooting issues with the data import tools
• Performing code reviews and other QA checks and audits to ensure that code is high quality, efficient and meets coding standards
• Working with a variety of legacy and new code and tools
• Contribute to the definition and execution of the evolution of our assessment import process and software tools for the Analytics and Insights product, working with cross functional teams
• Load customer data and interact with customers to address questions as required
• Document code, work process, and contribute to the planning and documentation of new software tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• At least 2 years experience with JavaScript, JSON, SQL
• At least 2 years experience working as a client facing resource in a software development role 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to work U.S. aligned work schedule

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure, is a plus.
• Solid understanding of database design and query optimization

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.