Lead Software Engineer
PowerSchool Group LLC1 month ago
Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design for a new multi-tenant reporting platform built on AWS serverless technologies.
- Develop software using Python, TypeScript, SQL, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and related services.
- Build AI-driven pipelines to extract, translate, and validate legacy business logic and report parameter screens.
- Define coding standards, best practices, and development patterns across the engineering team.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and conduct design and code reviews.
- Partner with Product, Data, QA, and Architecture teams to align technical and business requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging AI technologies and frameworks for automation.
- Ensure platform scalability, security, tenant isolation, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with AWS or Azure serverless architectures.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
- Prior experience using AI for code generation, metadata extraction, or workflow automation.
- Strong SQL background.
- Experience building or integrating AI-driven systems, including LLMs, embeddings, AI agents, and transformation pipelines.
- Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or legacy-platform modernization.
- Proven leadership in technical strategy and engineering mentorship.
- Experience designing or operating multi-tenant platforms is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT architecture patterns is preferred.
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills are preferred.
- Oracle experience is a plus.
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 Discretionary Time Off.
- Wellness program including ClassPass and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Optional pet insurance, identity theft protection, student debt repayment, and prepaid legal coverage.
- Tuition reimbursement.
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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.