Senior Staff Software Engineer - (Plano/Austin)

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

The 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 will be hiring this position in Plano, TX or Austin, TX.

Description

We are establishing an ERP Platform team focused on modernizing our core architecture. This initiative encompasses a multi-year effort involving various components: an event-driven integration gateway, domain-driven APIs, contemporary MFE-based user interfaces, and a strategy to decommission legacy application layers. We are seeking a high-impact Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical execution of our ERP modernization strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EventBridge, Lambda, and API Gateway, along with expertise in hybrid networking solutions including PrivateLink, VPC, and Site-to-Site VPN.
• Design an asynchronous integration gateway utilizing AWS tools, while establishing canonical data contracts. This includes developing adapters for data normalization and defining API conventions across various endpoints.
• Implement micro-frontend (MFE) applications using React and TypeScript, with an emphasis on user self-service functionalities.
• Ensure comprehensive deployment and validation within a specified testing framework.
• Create event schemas and establish publish/subscribe patterns for domain events via EventBridge.
• Create connector Lambdas to facilitate event translation and integrate resilience patterns for robustness.
• Engage in a comprehensive SaaS platform consolidation strategy by utilizing established integration patterns.
• Define and promote modernization practices that can be seamlessly adopted by different teams across the organization.
• Design and develop the next generation of our enterprise ERP application platform. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy screens and building new UI components using React while integrating with .NET/C# backend APIs.

Qualifications

• Expert with 8+ years of professional experience in building Enterprise Framework with extensive experience in Orchestration using GenAI to modernize legacy system.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services.
• AWS Hybrid Cloud Mastery: Hands-on experience with AWS EventBridge, Lambda, API Gateway, and hybrid networking (PrivateLink, VPC, Site-to-Site VPN).
• Hands-on experience with C# and .NET.
• AI/LLM Integration: Proven experience building applications that leverage LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic) or AI orchestration frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangChain, or similar).
• Legacy Data Fluency: Ability to read and interpret legacy code structures (COBOL copybooks or 4GL logic) and map them to modern relational schemas in SQL Server.
• DevOps & Fleet Management: Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) for deploying and managing software across a large fleet of customer instances.

Compensation & Benefits

PowerSchool Offers The Following 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
• Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

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.