Senior Software Engineer 1 - IC3 (SOFENG - Software Engineering)

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.

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:

• 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 performance of web application  
• Assist with security updates to 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  
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase  
• Train and mentor new and more junior software engineers  
• Other duties as assigned 
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• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelor’s 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, remote-friendly environment.
• One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus.
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• 1 years of experience in product or SaaS development.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks. 
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