ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sound simple? We strive to keep it that way! Our mission is to give schools the power to incredibly enhance family engagement for all students. ParentSquare and RemindHub, our flagship products, serve over 22 million students and drive our mission by providing unified communications tools -forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, direct messaging, language translations, chat and more. Remind Chat, our free product, reaches over 80% of K-12 students, providing a safe and easy-to-use platform for direct communication between teachers and families. And our latest innovation, SmartSites, offers state-of-the-art websites for school districts, enhancing their online presence and accessibility.
We are not just creating a product; we are creating empowered educators and engaged parents to improve the lives of all students. We are passionate advocates for our customers and for our employees and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.
We are looking for a Software Engineer who operates with a high degree of urgency, a strong desire to learn, and a passion for modern development workflows. You are someone who wants to ship impactful code quickly and grow into a technical leader.
We are specifically seeking an AI-forward engineer. To us, this means you are someone who has fundamentally evolved your daily workflow using LLMs and AI agents. You should be the person on the team who leverages AI to bypass manual boilerplate, accelerate debugging, and ship clear, simple functionality at a pace that traditional methods simply can't match.
Most importantly, you’re someone who shares in our passion for improving the lives of students through communication.
- Mission-Driven Development: Write and ship clear, simple code that makes educators’ lives easier and improves student outcomes.
- Collaboration: Partner with product owners, design, and senior engineering teammates to ensure we build features as cleanly and simply as possible.
- AI Adoption: Actively utilize and champion AI development practices within your daily workflow, helping your peers find ways to increase sprint velocity and code quality.
- Scalable Engineering: Build and maintain features that operate robustly at scale while adhering to the highest level of security for the schools that rely on us.
- Technical Culture: Contribute to a unified technical direction and a team culture focused on excellence, continuous learning, and speed.
- Code & Architecture: Actively participate in PR reviews and help implement the future architecture of our systems, including supporting the evolution of our monolithic systems.
- Backend & Frontend Experience: Professional experience working on services utilizing Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PHP.
- Relational Database Knowledge: Solid experience building application services with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including a strong understanding of relational databases beyond just standard ORM usage.
- Systems Familiarity: Experience working within distributed systems and an understanding of how to work with and evolve monolithic architectures.
- AWS Exposure: Experience deploying, monitoring, and operating services on cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS (Aurora, RDS, SQS).
- API Development: Proficiency with building and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
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)
- 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!
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. We are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in compliance with applicable state laws.
The salary range for this role will be $135,000- $185,000 DOE.
Skills Required
- Professional experience building services using Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PHP
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL) beyond basic ORM usage
- Experience working in distributed systems and evolving monolithic architectures
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and operating services on AWS (Aurora, RDS, SQS)
- Proficiency building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Familiarity and daily use of LLMs/AI agents to improve development workflows
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
What We Do
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 5,000 schools and 4 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 10th 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.
Why Work With Us
Joining our team means you have a unique opportunity to join our growing and mission-driven team.
