Staff Engineer

ParentSquare is a rapidly growing company changing the way schools and parents communicate. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will lead technical initiatives and promote AI development practices to enhance productivity and code quality.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with product owners, executive leadership, design, sales, and marketing to ensure we build the right things as simply as possible
• Act as the internal champion for AI development practices, mentoring the engineering org on using AI to increase sprint velocity and code quality
• Build and run systems that operate robustly at scale while ensuring the highest level of security for the schools that rely on us
• Work with leadership to build a unified technical direction and a culture of excellence and speed
• Review PRs and design the future architecture of our systems, including the evolution of our monolithic architectures

Requirements:

• Mastery of large-scale services using Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and PHP
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases (MySQL/Postgres), and AWS infrastructure (Aurora, RDS, SQS)
• You treat AI as your primary partner in the development lifecycle, using it to bypass boilerplate and focus on deep architectural work
• You can represent the engineering team in high-stakes discussions with non-technical stakeholders to drive business value
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field