Senior Software Developer

$90,000 - $110,000/Yr

Pearson Education - Little Rock, AR

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Little Rock, AR

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Fullstack Developer at Pearson is responsible for the analysis, design, implementation, and testing of high-quality code for the Navvy classroom assessment platform. This role involves collaborating with a team of professionals to maintain and support mission-critical applications, ensuring that the product meets the needs of educators and students. The position requires adherence to industry best practices and Pearson coding standards while fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership while respecting others' opinions.
• Work collaboratively with Product Managers and fellow engineers.
• Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices.
• Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's requirements.
• Use tools and best practices to create design models from requirements.
• Participate in generating requirements, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, SRE, management, end users) to release high quality software.
• Create testable requirements, write, and execute tests.
• Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence.
• Mentor and train new team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline (equivalent job experience will also be considered).
• 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 version control tools.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience leading software automation workflows to remove human dependencies in critical business processes.
• 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 behind the software architecture.
• Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations.
• Must have strong time management skills - including the ability to plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines without constant supervision.
• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work within a team.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee discount programs