Lead Software Engineer

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

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.

Description

• Lead architecture and design for a new multi-tenant reporting platform built on AWSserverless technologies.
• Provide hands-on development using Python, TypeScript, SQL, and AWS services includingLambda, Step Functions, API Gateway and others.
• Develop AI-driven pipelines that extract, translate, and validate business logic and reportparameter screens from the legacy platform.
• Define coding standards, best practices, and development patterns across the engineeringteam.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; conduct design and code reviews.
• Partner with Product, Data, QA, and Architecture teams to align technical and businessrequirements.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including Agent Orchestration, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.
• Ensure platform scalability, security, tenant isolation, and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS serverless architectures.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Strong SQL background; Snowflake experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience building or integrating AI-driven systems (LLMs, embeddings, AIagents, transformation pipelines).
• Solid experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or modernizing legacy platforms.
• Proven leadership in technical strategy and mentoring.
• Experience designing or operating multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT architecture patterns.
• Prior experience with AI for code generation, metadata extraction, or workflow automation.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search, Agents and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, Typescript, React
• Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
• Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production

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

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $92,800 - $170,300 USD. 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.

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. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accomodations@powerschool.com.