Senior Software Engineer 1

Overview

This position, under the general direction of the Lead and/or Manager, Software Engineering, will be responsible for technical and development support for our award-winning K-12 ERP software. This role will implement, code, build, and test new features, maintain existing features, and develop reports that will include components, data models, customization and reporting features for our products. Additionally, this position will gather and refine requirements, develop designs, implement, test and document solutions to produce the highest quality product and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• 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. 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 execution of technical solutions
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 5+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications. Experience working in Financials product development teams preferred.
• Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and React.js , .NET, C Sharp.
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MS SQL Server, 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
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment.
• Experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS
• Experience in product or SaaS development.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks.
  
  
  
  

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 accomodations@powerschool.com.