Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
The Software Engineering team is a group of full stack developers who design develop and maintain our products tools and infrastructure.
PowerSchool is looking for an experienced engineer to join its platform team. In this position you will work across our delivery teams to help drive the evolution of the Schoology Learning Management System (LMS) and to help us scale our platform. The Schoology Learning Suite gives educators the tools to personalise learning for every learner. It is used by millions of distinct users daily integrates with hundreds of different partners and sits at the heart of the PowerSchool classroom initiative.
We are a product that supports learning and we are looking for smart creative individuals who are passionate about education and arent afraid to show it. In fact this is a key part of what we are looking for on our team: How can you show us the new technologies and practices youve learned and applied to improve the efficacy of the teams you have been a party to.
You will work in a culture of continuous integration continuous delivery and continuous improvement. We release multiple times a day and never work in a vacuum. Teamwork and collaboration are essential.
Our team runs hundreds of servers is simultaneously working on 20 projects across the organisation using many different technologies. To be successful on Schoology learning we are looking for some evidence of:
- How you drove change in an origination ideally without using role power edicts.
- How you championed NFR (nonfunctional requirements) to deliver software that tells us its not performing before customers notice the problem.
- Used your writing skills to build up a knowledge base that scales past your ability to train everyone on the team.
- Writing code in a distributed system both with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
- How we decide upon managed or bare metal hosting in cloud environments (We use AWS)
- What you would do in a world with no downtime not even scheduled.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 1015 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
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required; Masters degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
- A minimum of three years experience delivering web applications at scale in public cloud providers like AWS
- You should be able to speak about a few services very deeply
- You should understand why you arent using some services
- You should understand how provisioning occurs especially permissions and networking
- A minimum of six years experience in Software Engineer roles developing designs frameworks standards patterns and facilitating their use by teams of Software Engineers
- A minimum of five years experience with SOA Product Domain Application and Data Integration experience for Web Services Platforms and Messaging Systems.
- Experience building web applications using modern server languages (Typescript/ PHP Go Java ...)
- Experience operating observing and understanding distributed systems.
- Experience developing microservices and APIs in a MultiTenant environment.
- Experience with MySQL (Aurora) RDBMS and NoSQL Databases
- Experience developing prototypes proofs of concept (to validate new solutions)
- Familiarity with build/deploy toolchains and platforms for containerised and serverless services
- Ability to work with current software design principles and concepts such as patterns algorithms data structures dependency injection MV** SOA ntier architecture monolithic vs micro services immutable server
- Understanding of the following:
a. Normalisation and best practices on when to use function views stored procedures and transactions
b. Maintenance and backup strategies to communicate with DBA team
c. Change control and deployment procedures
d. Ability to translate complex business needs and problems into innovative technical and world class solutions.
e. Ability to communicate project status on regular basis. Ensure stakeholders are effectively informed in a timely manner.
f. Excellent communication skills where you can articulate solutions with people who have different skill sets.
g. The energy and passion to help us deliver better software than we would have thought to build without you being on our team!
EEO Commitment
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
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Employment Type
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