Senior Software Engineer

Pearson is a global leader in education, committed to helping learners realize their potential through innovative technology. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software for assessment technology platforms, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for analysis, design, implementation, and unit testing to produce high-quality code for a project team responsible for supporting a number of cutting-edge assessment technology platforms
• Analyze & Design - Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's requirements
• Use tooling and best practices to create design models from requirements
• Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices
• Participate in requirements, design and code reviews
• Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, configuration management, end users) to release high quality software
• Create testable requirements and write and execute unit tests
• Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence

Requirements:

• Experience as a fullstack engineer with Go, Javascript/Typescript, VueJS, Python, Postgres, MongoDB
• Experience with Cloud AWS hosted applications
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• Software development experience creating SaaS applications
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software following industry best practices
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent web-based applications
• Experience with GIT or similar VCS tools
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• Experience working with a range of AI tools and LLMs
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
• Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
• Able to think technically and analytically
• Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture
• Must assimilate information, distil 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
• Ability to work within a team