Senior Software Engineer

Remote • Full-Time

Who we are

ParentSquare is a Santa Barbara-based growing company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sounds simple? We strive to keep it that way! Over 20,000 schools and 10 million parents across the U.S. utilize our platform to stay informed and involved from the way they prefer to be notified – email, text, voice, web, app, social – to the ways they can interact with schools – forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, language translations, chat and more. We just celebrated our 13th anniversary and are excited to continue advancing K-12 communications equity with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform so districts and schools can connect with all parents and guardians

Who we’re looking for

Business is booming and we need your help! More schools and districts, and larger schools and districts are buying ParentSquare to help families and educators communicate and partner in support of their students, and we need you!  We need to not only ship clear, simple functionality that makes educators’ lives easier, but we also need to build and run systems that operate robustly at scale, while ensuring the highest level of security for the schools and districts that rely on us.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will work with our customers and your teammates from product, engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ensure we build the right thing as quickly and as simply as possible. You will both teach and learn from your teammates as you seek to understand their challenges, needs, and expertise as you work with them to ship new features every sprint. You will do a little bit of everything - design, code, test, deploy, debug, find and fix bugs, reduce costs, secure our systems, run projects, document challenges, improve processes, and be a trustworthy member of our team.

This role will include:

• Partner closely with customers and Product Owners to define, build, and ship new features for educators on the ParentSquare platform
• Partner closely with peers in engineering to constantly improve the cost, security, scalability, and maintainability of the ParentSquare platform
• Work across our ecosystem - web, service layer, database, message queues - to deliver value for our customers
• Operate our production systems at scale by identifying and fixing bugs, reviewing your peers’ code, and debugging systems when faults arise
• Design, break down, release, and lead projects that serve the educators that rely on ParentSquare every day.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Web development with large-scale services on Ruby/Python and JavaScript/TypeScript and PHP
• Service and application development with MySQL/Postgres
• Deploying and operating systems at scale on AWS/Aurora/RDS/SQS
• Proficiency with RESTful API development
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems (Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Management Information Systems, etc.), or related field.
• Familiarity with incremental, agile development processes, as well as CI/CD

The perks of working for us are great!

You’ll get your foot in the door as our company continues to grow. We’re big believers in work-life balance and provide:

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• Employer-match 401K retirement savings program starting from day 1 of employment
• Stock options 
• Health + wellness reimbursements 
• Generous PTO (120 hours in your first year, then milestone increases every year)
• 15 paid holidays, including your birthday and time off between Christmas and New Year

As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive. 

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The salary for this role will be between $140,000 to $180,000, DOE