Senior Software Developer Jobs At Pearson, Bangalore, India

Job Overview

Senior Software Developer

Description

Pearson is a global education company that helps people around the world to make progress in their lives through learning. With a rich heritage that combines 150 years of experience in publishing with the latest learning technology and digital services, we help people to learn whatever, wherever and however they choose.

We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education.

Why we need you

Our strength comes from our outstanding people; our strong relationships in the education world; our expertise in using technology to help people learn; our global footprint and local reach; and our position as a profitable, global company with a unifying sense of purpose.

We’re investing in our technology and infrastructure. By working at Pearson, you have a unique chance to make a real difference to the lives of people all over the world.

Across the world we believe strength and success comes from diversity in our people – all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

Summary

Java Developer implements server APIs and scripts to solve complex, difficult business and engineering problems. The position demands someone who can analyze and recommend candidate solutions that meet functional as well as non-functional needs such as scalability, reliability, and extensibility.

Duties and Responsibilities

● Designs and implements highly scalable, available, performant, maintainable REST API services utilizing Java and support of a fast, flexible content delivery system in a rapidly moving business environment.

● Implements new software solutions as well as maintains and enhances existing systems

● Engages with staff members across all functional areas (including development, project management, QA, and devOps) to ensure seamless delivery of development solutions

● Works with DevOps teams to ensure streamlined CI/CD pipeline is utilized to maximize delivery efficiency. Also works to ensure scalability, availability, monitoring/alerting, autoscaling, and infrastructure-as-code practices are followed.

● Works with product stakeholders and analysts to refine and clarify UI requirements into tasks and provide estimates for those tasks

● Ensures that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, security, performance, and maintainability.

● Actively participates in requirements, architecture, and design meetings

● Writes documentation for both internal and external consumers, covering design artifacts, code, and fixes

● Other duties as assigned KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Expert knowledge required in the following areas

○ Java 8+ years

○ Strong foundational knowledge with Core Java, Collection framework, Multi-threading (concurrency)

○ Ability to think in terms of design patters, applying right data structure would be ideal

○ Critical analysis and problem-solving ability are a must, prior experience with performance engineering is a huge plus

○ Strong experience with REST API design

○ Microservice Architecture

○ Unit Testing / Test Coverage

○ Exposure to API Performance engineering Significant experience or knowledge required in the following areas:

○ Spring/Spring Boot framework

○ MongoDB

○ MySQL (or other relational SQL DB experience)

○ Serverless Architecture

○ AWS Lambda /AWS services

○ Continuous Integration/Build Automation

○ Agile development

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