Software Engineer II

As a Software Developer, you will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation, and automated testing in a high-performing, experienced team. You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality full-stack solutions in an agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of areas, including: finance, infrastructure, test center utilization, e-commerce, registration and scheduling. You will also be responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. In this role, every day you will be expected to continually grow and challenge all of us to raise the bar even higher with your contributions to people, process and technology. This is a highly collaborative team continually working on a variety of complex and challenging projects.

The Software Developer will:

• Analyze & Design – Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer’s requirements. Will use industry best practices and tools, and will use established patterns and/or recommend new design patterns.

• Implement & Perform – Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices; maintain and support mission-critical applications as necessary.

• Review – Participate in and lead requirement, design code, and test case reviews

• Test & Deploy – Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, configuration management, end users) to release high quality software. Create testable code that meets requirements, and ensure automated unit, integration and functional tests are created.

• Improve Quality/Processes – Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence

• Document and Report – Complete project documentation as required, including logging status, risk, progress, and effort on assigned work

• People development - Mentor and train new team members; actively collaborate with others within and outside of the team

• Performs other duties as assigned

Required Education & Experience:

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

• 3+ years minimum Java development required

• 1+ years programmatic interaction with relational database systems

• Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS, JQuery

• Experience in OOAD, agile processes, design patterns, SQL and UML

Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experience working in agile environment highly preferred

• Experience in creating design documents, performing code reviews and test driven development

• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools

• Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications

• Ability to think technically and analytically

• Ability to understand philosophy of architecture

• Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations

• Must have strong time management skills - including ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines

• Must develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts and work well within a team

• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented

• Must have a “positive” and energetic demeanor

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10

Experience with some or** all of **the following tools (Required):

• Java SE and EE (3 - 5 years)

• AngularJS (and other Javascript frameworks such as jQuery)

• Spring (1 - 2 years)

• Web Services (SOAP/REST) (1 - 2 years)

• SQL (3+ years)

• Requirements & analysis experience

• OOAD design

• Agile development

• Design patterns

• Security protocols, cryptography, authentication and security standards

Experience with some or** all of **the following (Preferred):

• JPA

• Hibernate

• Python (1 year) - machine learning

• Swing

• Tomcat

• Jersey

• SQL Server (Transact-SQL)

• Liquibase

• Machine Learning / AI

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The full-time salary range is between $100,000 - $120,000

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here .

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