Senior Software Engineer

Pearson's K-12 School Technology group is building next-generation assessment platforms. This Full-Stack Software Engineer role involves developing cutting-edge applications using Go, VueJS, Python, and more. The team is collaborative and agile.

• 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.
• Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's 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.
• Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence.

• 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 (desirable)
• Experience working with a range of AI tools and LLMs (desirable)
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools (desirable)
• Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications (desirable)
• Able to think technically and analytically (desirable)
• Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture (desirable)
• Must assimilate information, distil knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations (desirable)
• Must have strong time management skills (desirable)
• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented (desirable)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills (desirable)
• Ability to work within a team (desirable)

• Remote work
• Annual incentive program
• Benefits package