Staff 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 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.

Description

The Software Engineering team is a group of Fullstack 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 the performance of the 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  
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant and related work experience.
• At least 3+ years in a leadership or senior engineering role.
• Experience designing scalable and secure systems.
• Knowledge of performance optimization and system reliability
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (Express.js/NestJS).
• Solid experience in React.js, including Hooks and state management.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) / TypeScript
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs / microservices
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB).
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) 
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks. 
• Experience in mentoring and guiding developers
• Strong understanding of clean code, design patterns, and version control (Git)
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with serverless architecture
• Familiarity with Redux / advanced state management

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.