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Company

Pearson · 10 hours ago

Senior Software Developer

Des Moines, IA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$90K/yr - $110K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership while respecting others’ opinions. Work collaboratively with Product Managers and fellow engineers

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 tools and best practices to create design models from requirements

Review - Participate in generating requirements, design reviews, and code reviews

Test & Deployment - Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, SRE, management, end users) to release high quality software

Create testable requirements, write, and execute 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

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualification

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Software DevelopmentSaaS ApplicationsGitAWSGoJavaScriptVueJSPostgreSQLAgile EnvironmentQTIOneRosterEd-fiCaliper

Required

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

Current Tech Stack: AWS-hosted, Github, Go, Javascript, VueJS, PostgreSQL

Preferred

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

Experience with any of the following EdTech standards is considered a bonus: QTI (Question & Test Interoperability), OneRoster, Common K-12 reporting frameworks such as Ed-fi and Caliper