Software Engineer 2

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 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.

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:

Description

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
• 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
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Strong proficiency in React with a solid understanding of component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
• Expertise in CSS/Sass including responsive design, accessibility best practices, and experience working within a design system or style guide.
• Solid front-end engineering fundamentals, including JavaScript/TypeScript, build tools (e.g., Webpack, Vite), and version control with Git.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system, with a strong eye for consistency, scalability, and collaboration with design teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS and serverless architecture, particularly as it relates to front-end deployment or integration with backend services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway).
• Experience with design tokens and theming using tools like Style Dictionary or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience building inclusive, accessible components.
• Comfort with full-stack collaboration, including working with backend APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and performance monitoring tools.

EEO Commitment:

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to 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