Software Engineer

PowerSchool Group • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

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. We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build a new multi-tenant, cloud-native reporting and data platform, replacing the legacy single-tenant reporting system. This role is hands-on and highly technical, focusing on development, automation, and the use of AI to migrate and refactor business logic and report configurations.

Requirements

• Solid hands-on experience with AWS serverless technologies.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript for backend development.
• Strong understanding of SQL and relational/dimensional modeling basics.
• Demonstrated AI engineering experience, such as LLM integration, embeddings, or AI-driven code workflows.
• Experience building APIs, event-driven components, or distributed backend systems.
• Strong debugging skills and ability to follow complex logic patterns.
• Ability to collaborate in an engineering team environment and work with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses.
• Exposure to ETL/ELT patterns or data pipeline tools.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with domain-driven design or multi‑tenant system principles.
• Strong communication and collaborative engineering habits.

Responsibilities

• Build AWS serverless components using Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway and related services.
• Develop backend services and components using Python, TypeScript, and SQL.
• Write and optimize SQL for data access and reporting workloads; Snowflake experience is a plus.
• Implement AI-driven solutions to extract business logic from legacy code, generate new report parameter screens and metadata, and perform logic validation.
• Collaborate closely with Senior and Lead Engineers on architecture, design, and implementation plans.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Maintain high engineering standards, documentation quality, and best practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Comprehensive 401(k) plan
• Generous Parental Leave
• Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
• Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Pet Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Student Debt Repayment Program
• Prepaid Legal coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed