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About Pearson:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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The Team!

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 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

+ 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

Required Experience:

+ Hands-on 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.

+ 3 to 6 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

+ Experience with Data Science using Python desired

+ Experience building AI solutions using AWS Bedrock desired

_Applications will be accepted through July 14, 2025. This window may be extended depending on business needs._

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**Job:** Engineering

**Job Family:** TECHNOLOGY

**Organization:** Assessment & Qualifications

**Schedule:** FULL\_TIME

Workplace Type:

**Req ID:** 20442