Description:
Seeking Ruby Software Engineer to develop software at a Pearson in our Workforce Skills business unit offering software and services that make life’s achievements portable, digital and verified.
Who You Are
- A no-job-too-big-no-job-too-small professional who believes in what we're doing and wants to help us scale.
- A self-driven individual with a drive to make an impact.
- A hyper-organized, super-responsive, generally on-top-of-your-stuff kind of person.
- An individual with perspective and the judgment to identify what you can fix and what you need help with.
- A process-focused thinker with the ability to design systems that scale.
- A quick learner willing to work without perfect information and the ability to get smart fast as new business opportunities demand.
What You'll Do Here
- Contribute to the evolutionary architecture of a growing product platform. Implement features and necessary infrastructure.
- Leverage best practices in agile construction, including unit testing, test automation, automated deployment, etc.
- Learn and support best practices in REST web service development.
- Identify technical trade-offs associated with product/feature choices.
- Develop web application(s) as part of platform development.
- Support Product Management and Client Success team in answering questions about the platform APIs.
- Support efforts to onboard new third-parties to use the platform.
- Help develop products and services that meet Pearson's Information Security requirements.
- Remain current on information security developments and check your work for vulnerabilities.
What You Know, Have Done, or Can Do (Must Haves)
- 2+ years of experience with Ruby development skills applied in an agile, continuous deployment setting.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Develop responsive, high performing web applications using modern techniques and frameworks.
- Write tests and perform code reviews in a dynamic, fast paced agile environment.
- Work closely with a highly productive development team to deliver new features on time
- Operate using full knowledge of modern Web application frameworks (React, Angular, jQuery, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of SQL and database functionality.
- Must be located in the United States.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.