Pearson Hiring for Senior Full Stack Software Developer at Augusta, Maine Full Time

Senior Full Stack Software Developer – ( 2112249 )

Description

We are the world’s learning company with more than 21,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

The Senior Software Developer is 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. They are also responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary.

This requisition is part of the Pearson/MZD team, which develops innovative assessment technology platforms. One of the team’s primary responsibilities is supporting a number of technology platforms that deliver exams to test takers, score and report results. We are now in the midst of building our next generation assessment platform, which is a multi-year project with enormous strategic value, leveraging state of the art technologies and processes. We are looking for outstanding candidates to bolster the staff of this critical project.

Team:

The Pearson/MZD development team is comprised of a small group of inspired developers that thrive on developing cutting edge applications, with a passion for innovation and pride in producing excellent user experiences. 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.

The Senior Software Developer will:

● Provide engineering leadership on a dynamic assessment reporting system

● 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 and lead 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

● People development – Mentor and train new team members

● Performs other duties as assigned

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $80-100k. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline

• 3-5 years relevant 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

Current Tech Stack:

• AWS hosted applications

• Go, Javascript/Typesript, VueJS, Python, Postgres, MongoDB

Desired Experience:

• 1 years experience working in an agile environment

• 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, 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

• Ability to work within a team

Experience with some or all of the following is considered a bonus:

• IMS LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)

• IMS QTI (Question & Test Interoperability)

• IMS OneRoster

• Common K-12 reporting frameworks suchas (Ed-fi and Caliper)

Primary Location : US-RE-Remote

Other Locations : US-IA-Iowa City

Work Locations :

US-Remote

Remote

Job : Technology

Organization : Assessments School

Employee Status : Regular Employee

Job Type : Standard

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Shift : Day Job

Job Posting : Aug 26, 2021

Job Unposting : Ongoing

Schedule: : Full-time Regular

Req ID: 2112249