Staff Engineer

ParentSquare

Staff Software Engineer focusing on AI in communication tools for schools and parents. Lead technical initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive architectural evolution.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsJavaScriptMySQLPHPPostgresPythonRubyTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field
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
Can represent the engineering team in high-stakes discussions with non-technical stakeholders to drive business value

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
Paid Parental Leave
Stock options
Health + wellness reimbursements
PTO that increases each year
15 paid holidays, including your birthday!

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Hard Skills & Tools

RubyPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptPHPdistributed systemsrelational databasesMySQLPostgresAWS

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingbusiness value representationculture of excellencesprint velocity improvement

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree