Job Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help build functionality that will play a large role in delivering Pearson content to thousands of students. The Software Engineer will work as part of a team to design, create and enhance applications that relate to content publishing for Pearson Virtual Schools (PVS), under direction from business stakeholders, to implement a broader vision for the next generation of the publishing framework. Responsibilities:

• Work with product and technology teams to build, enhance, or maintain applications within Pearson’s suite of platforms.
• Work collaboratively within an Agile team to plan, estimate, design, and implement work from a backlog.
• Collaborate with other technology teams across Pearson where needed.
• Participate in architecture, code, security, and operational reviews.
• Be occasionally available off-hours in the event that critical Production issues require fixes/support

Experience/skills:

• Computer Science degree or related field. Bachelors or above preferred.
• 1-3 years in the software industry.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to learn/absorb new concepts such as business domains, detailed requirements, and algorithms.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, in both technical and business-oriented matters
• Ability to handle time constraints, estimate level of effort, and proactively communicate impediments.
• Experience in architecting and developing services-based consumer platforms at a high scale, high availability, performance, and resilience.
• Experience in translating business requirements into accurate technical requirements, and then implementing the technical requirements with precision
• Experience triaging and fixing bugs within existing/legacy applications
• Ability to modify/enhance complex legacy applications while avoiding regression/bugs
• Microsoft Azure (preferred) or AWS experience
• SQL
• C# & .NET framework (preferred) or similar object-oriented language
• REST / web service design and implementation
• Git

Job: TECHNOLOGY Organization: Virtual Learning Schedule: FULL\_TIME Req ID: 7493 \#LI-REMOTE