Software Engineer at PowerSchool Group LLC
Dallas, TX
$56,100–$111,800from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Dallas, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack software engineering role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining web applications within a K-12 education software platform. Day-to-day work spans backend development in functional or statically typed languages, PostgreSQL optimization, frontend tasks, and code review, with some production support. Best suited to engineers with at least two years of experience, ideally with Elixir or similar functional languages.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 55,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 33,200–99,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The functional/statically-typed language requirement lists Elixir, Erlang, Scala, F#, Rust, Go, and Zig as interchangeable options; Elixir is listed first and is also the subject of the preferred-qualification callout (Phoenix LiveView), suggesting it is the de-facto target language.
PostgreSQL profiling and optimization in production environments is explicitly required under Minimum Qualifications.
CSS/JS and backend work are framed as part of a full-stack comfort requirement under Minimum Qualifications; DevOps & Monitoring tasks are described as 'occasional' context rather than a gated skill.
Agentic Development (AI-assisted coding) is listed under Minimum Qualifications as 'familiarity with self-directed Agentic Development' — this is a methodology/approach rather than a named tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Phoenix LiveView and A11Y standards appear under Preferred Qualifications. Knowledge of Budgeting and Accounting terminology is domain knowledge, not a technology skill, and is omitted.
The posting does not specify a work location or city; the compensation range is stated as US-specific, and the role appears to be remote-eligible based on the absence of any office requirement.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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