Associate Software Engineer

## Overview At PowerSchool, we power education for students around the world. As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software, we support the full education ecosystem—from the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators, students, and families. ## 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 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: - Design, build, and maintain features for customer-facing web applications using React, TypeScript, and modern state management patterns within a micro-frontend architecture. - Leverage AI coding agents as a first-line collaborator for implementation, refactors, test authoring, and pull request generation. - Author and maintain automated test suites (unit tests, behavior-driven scenarios) to validate application functionality and user-facing workflows. - Build and consume backend APIs and services that power core product functionality, session management, and integration with other systems. - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to translate requirements into working, tested functionality. - Debug and resolve production and non-production issues across the full stack, from front-end integration conflicts to backend service errors. - Participate in code reviews, using AI-assisted review and code quality tooling to uphold consistency and engineering standards. - Continuously improve engineering velocity by adopting and refining AI-agentic workflows into the daily development lifecycle. ## Qualifications ### Minimum Qualifications - 1 year or less of relevant and related work experience. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience. - Travel occasionally, up to 5-10%, for key moments such as team summits, training, conferences, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands. - This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed. - Demonstrated hands-on experience using AI coding assistants/agents in a professional software development workflow, including prompt-driven code generation, review, and iteration. - Proficiency in full-stack development, including Java (or equivalent backend language/framework) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript front-end frameworks (e.g., React). - Experience with Git-based version control and collaborative pull request workflows. - Working knowledge of automated testing practices (unit testing frameworks and/or behavior-driven testing). ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience building or maintaining AI-agentic developer workflows — e.g., configuring AI agent instructions, custom prompts/agents, or automation that scopes builds/tests to changed code. - Familiarity with prompt engineering and evaluating/iterating on AI-generated code for quality, security, and maintainability. - Experience with micro-frontend architectures and module federation. - Familiarity with modern state management libraries (e.g., Redux/Redux Toolkit). - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and monorepo tooling at scale.