Software Engineer
PowerSchool Group LLC1 day ago
Dallas, TX, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Translate product requirements into discrete, testable tasks.
- Participate intelligently in code reviews across ongoing team work.
- Develop code and complete tasks alongside AI tools.
- Question and improve engineering processes with a critical perspective.
- Advocate for code and test quality by identifying unclear or unsound implementations.
- Build and improve shared tools and processes collaboratively.
- Investigate production systems or data in response to internal or customer questions.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of relevant and related work experience.
- Professional experience with functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, or F#, or modern statically typed languages such as Rust, Go, or Zig, developing web applications.
- Experience with PostgreSQL profiling and optimization in production environments.
- Comfort working across CSS/JavaScript, backend code, and occasional DevOps and monitoring tasks.
- Familiarity with self-directed Agentic Development.
- Preferred: Elixir/Phoenix LiveView experience, familiarity with accessibility standards and tooling, and knowledge of budgeting and accounting terminology and principles.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life insurance, and AD&D coverage.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan.
- Generous parental leave.
- Unrestricted paid time off through the Discretionary Time Off program.
- Wellness program including ClassPass and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Optional pet insurance, identity theft protection, student debt repayment, and prepaid legal coverage.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- The position is subject to company on-call policies and may require work outside normal business hours.
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About PowerSchool Group LLC
PowerSchool builds cloud software for K-12 school districts, spanning student information, learning management (Schoology), enrollment, assessments, analytics, special education, and HR/finance. It sells these products as SaaS to districts and state agencies to manage data, instruction, and operations across schools and families. Headquartered in Folsom, CA, PowerSchool supports over 60 million students at more than 18,000 customers, including over 90 of the 100 largest U.S. districts by enrollment.