Staff Software Engineer 2

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 cloudbased software for K12 education. Our employees make it all possible and a career with us means youre joining a successful team committed to engaging empowering and improving the K12 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 full stack developers who design develop and maintain our products tools and infrastructure.

Your daytoday job will consist of:

• Lead a software development project and manage software development from inception to delivery
• Be both a highly technical handson coder and effective at mentorship
• Coach and mentor team members for skill development and experience
• Establish goals and objectives for the team that aligns with the overall roadmap and delivery schedules
• Works to increase team efficiency and effectiveness in order to achieve long term goals
• Participates in hiring of new team members
• Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance of 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 of technical solutions
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.
• Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript) Node.js and React.js
• Experience or willingness with developing serverless architecture
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL DynamoDB Redis etc.
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid
• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.
• Experience owning the responsibility for delivering frontend and backend work as well as coordinating with QA Design and PM
• Willingness to accept responsibility not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative remotefriendly environment.
• One year of experience using AWS services such as Lambda SES SQS EC2 RDS ELBs and have knowledge of VPCs
• Min 2 years of experience in product or SaaS development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AI tools and frameworks
• Experience working with Modern UI frameworks

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool celebrates 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