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ParentSquare

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Education • SaaS • B2B

ParentSquare is a unified, AI-enhanced communication platform purpose-built for K–12 schools and districts. It centralizes mass notifications, classroom and one-to-one messaging, forms and permission slips, attendance tools, school websites, secure document delivery, payments, and analytics to streamline engagement between educators, families, and staff. The platform emphasizes two-way translation, SIS integrations, data privacy, and easy onboarding, and is delivered as a software service used by districts and schools to improve family engagement and operational workflows.

📋 Description

• Partner with the VP of Engineering, C-Suite, Product leadership, and business stakeholders to turn company goals into executable technical strategies • Define and drive the company-wide AI development roadmap • Establish AI development practices, tools, and mindset across engineering • Own the overarching architectural vision of the platform • Guide the long-term evolution of services while balancing rapid iteration with security, privacy, and uptime requirements • Elevate engineering standards through architectural reviews and mentorship of Staff and Senior engineers • Model a culture of speed, rigor, and simplicity • Serve as the technical voice in high-stakes conversations with clients, partners, and cross-functional executives • Align technology with core business value

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record designing, evolving, and maintaining complex, high-scale services • Experience with Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and PHP • Deep expertise in distributed systems, scale, and reliability • Expertise with relational databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL • Experience with cloud infrastructure including AWS Aurora, RDS, and SQS • Thought leadership in AI-assisted software engineering • Ability to shape how teams pair with AI to eliminate toil • Exceptional ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, executives, and customers • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field • Demonstrated history of technical leadership at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Home office tools and equipment