Software Engineer III

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🕒 September 25

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $150k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs alongside modern JavaScript/React frontends • Own the quality, performance, and reliability of services, APIs, and frontends • Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of complex, well-scoped features and systems • Write clear, maintainable, well-tested code • Reduce complexity by simplifying services, improving patterns, and paying down technical debt • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing • Evolve the platform to support new services and capabilities across adjacent codebases and domains • Partner with external vendors and Product and Customer Success stakeholders to turn requirements into technical solutions • Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and debugging • Follow and promote secure, scalable, cloud-native web application development practices • Help build, scale, and evolve Pearson's API-driven platform used globally to issue and verify digital credentials • Contribute to architectural decisions and improve the health of owned systems

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience • Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL • Proven track record of making high-impact technical decisions in complex production environments • Experience shipping well-tested code and giving constructive code reviews • Excellent cross-functional communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Experience in software architecture, system design, and scalability • Strong hands-on engineering background • Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers • Experience with distributed or service-oriented systems • Experience with asynchronous, event-driven communication between services • Comfort working across more than one codebase and ramping quickly into unfamiliar systems • Comfort using AI tools for coding, testing, documentation, and learning, with sound judgment in validating AI-generated output • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production workloads on AWS and Azure (nice to have) • Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices (nice to have) • Experience integrating with or building alongside third-party or vendor-delivered services (nice to have) • Strong understanding of web application security best practices (nice to have) • Experience with design systems, component libraries, or advanced frontend tooling (nice to have) • Experience with scalability, resilience, or performance work at scale (nice to have) • Experience with messaging or event-streaming systems such as Apache Pulsar or Apache Kafka (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program • Benefits offered by Pearson (details linked in the posting)