Key skills
TypeScriptGoRAILLMAgenticVueVue.jsAWSPostgresGitHubAgileCI/CDLeadershipCommunicationTime Management
About this role
Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company, dedicated to helping people realize their potential through learning. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software solutions, focusing on new technologies and processes, while taking ownership of functionality and collaborating closely with customers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and support a new web application stack
- Leverage and refine LLM-codegen processes to balance agility and quality
- Develop and leverage agent-driven AI architectures
- Work closely with customers and adapt tools to their needs
- Develop psychometrics and data science-focused tools in R
- Operate, extend and create cloud-based solutions in AWS
- Develop and maintain code using best practices for maintainability, performance, security, and verifiability
- Possess the ability to quickly learn new processes, tools, and business domains
- Work with engineering leadership to deliver timely, robust software adhering to best practices
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline, or equivalent on-the-job training
- A willingness to learn new technologies and new domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud applications)
- 3-5 years relevant full-stack software development experience
- Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software, following industry best practices
- Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based Web applications
- AWS hosted applications
- Go, Postgres, TypeScript, Vue.js, PrimeVue, D3
- R and R data science libraries
- Github and Github-driven CI/CD
- Heavily LLM-driven development
- Able to think technically and analytically
- Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture
- Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
- Must have strong time management skills - including the ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines
- Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Proven ability to work and excel within a team
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
- Some background in statistics is not required but is a big plus