Lead Engineer I

About PowerSchool

At PowerSchool we power education for students around the world. As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software we support the full education ecosystemfrom the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators students and families.

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:

• Provide technical leadership for a cross-functional team delivering customer-facing product features and cloud-based services.
• Define and evolve frontend backend API and cloud architecture for systems of moderate to high complexity.
• Lead technical design discussions review proposals and guide architectural and implementation tradeoffs.
• Write review and guide the implementation of TypeScript React API and infrastructure code.
• Establish engineering patterns and standards for component architecture state management API integration testing accessibility internationalization security performance and error handling.
• Guide the design of backend and backend-for-frontend APIs that integrate with cloud services data stores and internal platforms.
• Partner with product design DevOps platform security and architecture teams on technical planning infrastructure as code CI/CD deployment automation and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineers address technical debt and delivery risks and support production issue resolution root-cause analysis and improvements to system reliability.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Significant experience building and operating production web applications using TypeScript and modern JavaScript tooling.
• Strong experience with React application architecture including component design state management API integration testing and performance considerations.
• Experience designing or leading backend API development in or a comparable server-side platform.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture especially serverless or managed-service environments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines deployment automation and environment-based configuration.
• Strong testing discipline including unit tests component tests API tests mocking strategies and practical coverage expectations.
• Ability to lead technical design across frontend backend and infrastructure concerns.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the quality of a teams technical work.
• Strong code review skills and the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly.
• Understanding of secure engineering practices including safe logging input validation error handling dependency management and protection of sensitive data.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product design platform security and engineering stakeholders.
• Proven ability to balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability.

• Experience with micro-frontends Module Federation or modular frontend architectures.
• Experience with Redux Toolkit RTK Query or similar client-side data/state management approaches.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB SQS SSM CloudFront or related managed services.
• Experience with AWS CDK or another infrastructure-as-code framework.
• Experience building backend-for-frontend APIs for complex product experiences.
• Familiarity with enterprise design systems and accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Experience with observability structured logging tracing and operational readiness for production systems.
• Experience improving frontend performance Core Web Vitals or user-experience quality metrics.
• Experience working in a monorepo with multiple deployable workspaces or packages.
• Experience guiding teams through dependency upgrades platform migrations or modernization efforts.

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