We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Full Stack Software Engineer for Pearson’s Q-global product. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing new features for Q-global and migrating the current platform to it's new version. This is a multi-year project with enormous strategic value and high revenue growth.

You will work with a distributed development team spread across the US, Europe and Asia. 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.

Responsibilities

The Senior Full Stack Engineer will:

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. They will use industry best practices while working in a team of high-performing professionals.

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 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

Required Experience:

Experience as a full stack engineer with Java, Spring Framework, Angular Framework, Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS , Postgres, MongoDB

Experience with Cloud AWS-hosted applications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline

Software development experience creating SaaS applications

Experience with the 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 with CI/CD tools like Jenkins

Experience working in an agile environment

Education :

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

5 to 10 years of relevant project experience.

Desirable Experience:

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, distil 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

This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be onsite at Pearson's Bangalore office three days a week