Senior Software Developer

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Full Stack Software Engineer for Pearson’s Q-global product. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing new features for Q-global and migrating the current platform to it's new version. This is a multi-year project with enormous strategic value and high revenue growth. 

You will work with a distributed development team spread across the US, Europe and Asia. Our work environment is collaborative, casual, flexible, agile and results driven. Since the business provides a mission-critical service to a demanding set of clients, high-quality performance is required to meet customer expectations.

Responsibilities

The Senior Full Stack Engineer will:

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. They will use industry best practices while working in a team of high-performing professionals. 

• Implement & Perform - Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices
• 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
• Review - Participate in requirements, design and code reviews
• Test & Deployment - 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
• Quality/process improvement - Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence

Required Experience:

• Experience as a full stack engineer with Java, Spring Framework, Angular Framework, Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS ,  Postgres, MongoDB
• Experience with Cloud AWS-hosted applications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• Software development experience creating SaaS applications
• Experience with the 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 with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience working in an agile environment

Education :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5 to 10 years of relevant project experience.

Desirable Experience:

• 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
• Experience with Data Science using Python highly preferred
• Experience building AI solutions using AWS Bedrock highly preferred

This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be onsite at Pearson's San Antonio office three days a week