Lead Engineer II

About PowerSchool

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 ecosystemfrom 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.

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.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to provide technical leadership for teams building modern enterprise applications APIs microservices data-processing systems integrations and cloud infrastructure.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning modern and legacy systems built with TypeScript JavaScript Java frontend frameworks backend services Kubernetes and infrastructure as code. You will guide architecture and modernization contribute to critical implementations mentor engineers and improve the reliability security and maintainability of the systems you support.

You may work across different products shared services or platform capabilities based on evolving business and engineering priorities.

• Provide technical leadership for cross-functional teams delivering customer-facing applications APIs services and cloud-based capabilities.
• Define and evolve frontend backend integration data-processing and cloud architecture for systems of moderate to high complexity.
• Lead technical design discussions review proposals document architectural decisions and guide implementation tradeoffs.
• Design implement review test and troubleshoot production software across Java TypeScript JavaScript frontend and backend systems.
• Establish engineering patterns and standards for API design testing security accessibility configuration observability performance and release quality.
• Partner with product design architecture security DevOps/SRE quality engineering and platform teams to translate business goals into incremental technical plans.
• Identify technical debt reliability risks dependencies and delivery bottlenecks and guide modernization without disrupting ongoing product delivery.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews code reviews pairing debugging technical planning delegated ownership and implementation support.

• Minimum of 10 years of professional software engineering experience including leadership of complex initiatives involving multiple services repositories teams or stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on expertise in either:
  • Java and its backend ecosystem or
  • TypeScript/JavaScript with and modern frontend frameworks.
• Ability to review troubleshoot and provide architectural guidance across frontend and backend systems including technologies outside your primary area of expertise.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade distributed systems using APIs microservices asynchronous processing databases integrations and cloud-hosted services.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture containers Kubernetes serverless technologies or managed cloud services.
• Experience with infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines deployment automation environment configuration and production release practices.
• Strong understanding of automated testing secure engineering code review observability incident response and operational readiness.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers communicate technical decisions clearly collaborate across functions and balance delivery priorities with long-term maintainability.
• Proven ability to balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability.

• Experience with React Angular NestJS micro-frontends Module Federation or other modular application architectures.
• Experience with Redux Toolkit RTK Query or comparable client-side state and data-management approaches.
• Experience building backend-for-frontend APIs for complex product experiences.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB SQS SSM and CloudFront.
• Experience with Terraform AWS CDK CloudFormation Kubernetes manifests or comparable infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications OAuth role-based access control API gateways and protection of sensitive data.
• Experience with structured logging distributed tracing service-level metrics frontend performance or Core Web Vitals.
• Experience with content ingestion search and indexing metadata media processing data pipelines or enterprise system integrations.
• Experience working across monorepos or multiple deployable repositories and guiding dependency upgrades platform migrations repository consolidation or legacy-system modernization.
• Familiarity with enterprise design systems accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

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