Associate Software Engineer at PowerSchool in US-TX-Dallas

Job description

• 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.

Responsibilities

• The Software Engineering team is a group of full stack developers who design, develop, and maintain our products, tools, and infrastructure.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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).
• 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.

Skills

Required

• AI coding assistants/agents
• Git-based version control
• Collaborative pull request workflows

Preferred

• AI-agentic developer workflows
• Prompt engineering
• Micro-frontend architectures
• Module federation
• CI/CD pipelines
• Monorepo tooling

Benefits

• Compensation & 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
• This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.