PowerSchool - Senior Engineer - Node.js/Full Stack (5-7 yrs)

Node.js FullStack - Senior Engineer

Description :

- 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 :

- Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions

- Develop scalable web applications and services

- Investigate and resolve issues reported for a large web application following best practices such as authoring or updating unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms

- Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance of web application

- Assist with security updates to web application

- Perform upgrades to 3rd party libraries and tools used by the web application

- Implement new web application software features and products following best practices such as

authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms

- Specialize in client or server side web application development as a member of a project team

- Familiarity with the full technical stack

- Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality

- Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase

- Train and mentor new and more junior software engineers

Minimum Qualifications

- Minimum of 5+ years of relevant and related work experience.

- Bachelors degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.

- Additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.

- Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and React.js

- Experience or willingness with developing serverless architecture

- Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)

- Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid

- Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous

challenges that face JavaScript developers today.

- Experience owning the responsibility for delivering frontend and backend work as well as coordinating with QA, Design, and PM

- Willingness to accept responsibility not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

- Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment