Senior Staff Software Engineer - (Plano/Austin)

Overview

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.

We will be hiring this position in Plano, TX or Austin, TX. Responsibilities: ### Description

We are establishing an ERP Platform team focused on modernizing our core architecture. This initiative encompasses a multi-year effort involving various components: an event-driven integration gateway, domain-driven APIs, contemporary MFE-based user interfaces, and a strategy to decommission legacy application layers.

We are seeking a high-impact Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical execution of our ERP modernization strategy. This is a "Builder-Architect" role focused on converting our core COBOL (BusinessPlus) and Genero (eFinancePlus) products into a modern, domain driven C#/.NET architecture.

You will not just be writing code; you will be building the Agentic Modernization Factory—a suite of AI-driven tools and pipelines that automate the translation, refactoring, and validation of legacy business logic at scale. You will also architect the "Unified Bridge" that allows our modernized services to operate seamlessly across 1,000+ customer instances, whether deployed in our cloud or on-...