Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Pearson VUE

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Open Source, SOAP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Colombo, Sri Lanka

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer driving design and delivery of complex enterprise applications. Providing technical leadership and mentoring, collaborating with architects and management.

Responsibilities

• A professional who drives the design and delivery of complex enterprise applications by providing technical leadership, ensuring high‑quality code, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with architects, product, and management teams.
• Overall Responsibilities: Responsible for design details under direction from Architect and clearly understand and defend trade-offs made.
• Provides leadership to technical resources to meet project deadlines and ensure project objectives are met in an efficient way.
• Facilitates communication between team members and collaborates with the management to drive new initiatives.
• Ensures that code artifacts produced are of the highest quality, conforming to set or agreed upon standard. Should advocate such consistency to all members of the team.
• Makes optimum utilization of engineering tools and technologies to maintain a high productivity level in the team.
• Provides realistic and accurate estimates and continuously improve on team productivity to achieve on-time Delivery.
• Follows the Pearson processes, agile practices and motivates his/her team members to do so.
• Escalates and communicates issues, risks and concerns to the management on time.
• Accepts project delivery responsibilities and demonstrate accountability to leadership.
• Builds competencies in product and technology domain to set expectations.
• Adhere to Pearson values and ethical practices.
• Maintains a sense of individuality in thinking and decision making.
• Is a professional in work aspects as well as conduct with other individuals.
• Provides feedback regarding product quality, performance, other non functional requirements and lead corrective measures.
• Supports the engineering management in the recruitment process.
• Directly engage with the product management for requirement analysis and clarifications and play a key role in assisting engineering/product management to define product and engineering roadmap items.
• Provides feedback to Software Engineering Manager to conduct performance appraisals/confirmations/promotions on team members.
• Coaching and Mentoring of team members.

Requirements

• Individual should possess a Bachelor's degree in Computing or Information Technology.
• Individuals who have a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or a specialization in the Engineering field will also be considered.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in software engineering and design and three (3) year of additional experience as a Technical Lead.
• Possess advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and Design
• Very good leadership skills with the ability to lead multiple development teams
• Strong technical knowledge and hands-on experience in one or more technology stack (Java/.Net/Mobile etc.) and good working knowledge of open source tools and technologies.
• A good understanding of Software Engineering Best Practices and ability to define and drive this within the teams
• Very good understanding and experience in design and implementation of enterprise applications
• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (including English language skills) and the ability to interact promptly and professionally with teams across different time zones.
• Ability to work in a team environment collaboratively with positive attitude
• Ability to learn new technologies rapidly and share knowledge with other team members
• The desire to learn and continuously improve on the product quality, performance and other non-functional requirements.
• Provision of in-depth technical skills to fix ad hoc incidents/problems, mentoring and support DevOps teams to ensure best practice.
• A good understanding of Architectural and Design patterns
• Desirable Experience or Knowledge in the following areas: Web Application Development, UI/UX Technologies, Source control systems, Unit testing and test automation frameworks, Continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and technologies, Agile practices, Web and Application Servers ( Weblogic , Tomcat , IIS ), Web Services - RESTful Web Services , SOAP Services, Database design and programming, Responsive Web Design

Benefits

• This position is located within an office environment and consists of many hours sitting at a computer in a cubicle / open office setting.