Software Engineer 1

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:

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions

• Learns about existing applications, architecture and functionality and asks questions to learn about these

• Participates in team level discussions such as refinement and planning meetings, understand stories, bugs presented by other senior members and asks questions towards getting better understanding of these requirements. Helps team in finding unknowns and doing better estimations of upcoming work.

• Converts problems into program. Comes up with basic designs and learns through reviews performed by other senior members in the team

• Writes efficient and clean code for building large scale data and web applications

• Pays attention to performance and optimal algorithms and proactively raised questions towards scalability of the code written

• Writes automated unit tests and secure code. Writes code that is easy to debug, fix and enhance in future by yourself and other team members.

• Proactively raises flags whenever encounters a situation that can be vulnerable proactively

• Has good in person and virtual presence during business hours.

• Is available on demand for critical situation as planned by senior members in advance

• Raises voice and puts up healthy debates towards improving existing processes that lead to higher efficiencies for team

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in software engineer role

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technologies with evidences of significant coding projects done yourself during engineering period is required

• Experience with agile development methodologies, continuous integration, and version control systems such as Git or SVN.

• Has done enough hands on programming both on front end and back end technologies and has built end to end applications at personal or small scale

• Has learned from past work towards building robust and defensive applications with focus on optimizations and security

• Knowledge and experience in any two backend programming languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, Server side JavaScript

• Has been exposed to solving performance problem either at web applications or backend applications.

• Knowledge and experience of any one cloud services such as AWS or Azure

• Proficient in any one RDBMS and non-RDBMS storage experience a plus

• Has designed simple database schemas, class diagrams and code organization for easy maintenance and enhancement of code

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. High collaboration within teams. ·   

Preferred Qualifications

• (These are NICE to haves. Add up to 5, keep them objective and qualifiable/quantifiable if possible)

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

PowerSchool India offers the following:

• Comprehensive Medical Insurance Coverage with no co-payment
• Annual Health Checkup Benefits
• Generous Parental Leave
• Maternity leaves governed by the Law
• Paid Time off (Includes Birthday Leaves, Medical Leaves, Sick and Casual Leaves)
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• A reasonable base compensation range for this position as per industry standards

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 accomodations@powerschool.com.