Senior Full-Stack Engineer — AI, Data Science, AWS

Pearson; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and maintain high-quality software for a new platform, using a fresh technology stack and modern processes. The role emphasizes rapid learning, ownership of functionality, and collaboration with psychometrics and data science domains.

You will work on a new web application stack, leverage LLM-codegen for agility, develop agent-driven AI architectures, and collaborate with customers to tailor tools to their needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline, or equivalent on-the-job training.
• A willingness to learn new technologies and new domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud applications).
• 3-5 years relevant full-stack software development experience.
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software, following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based Web applications.
• Some background in statistics is not required but is a big plus.
• AWS hosted applications.
• R and R data science libraries.
• Github and Github-driven CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support a new web application stack.
• Leverage and refine LLM-codegen processes to balance agility and quality.
• Develop and leverage agent-driven AI architectures.
• Work closely with customers and adapt tools to their needs.
• Develop psychometrics and data science-focused tools in R.
• Operate, extend and create cloud-based solutions in AWS.
• Develop and maintain code using best practices for maintainability, performance, security, and verifiability.
• Possess the ability to quickly learn new processes, tools, and business domains.
• Work with engineering leadership to deliver timely, robust software adhering to best practices.

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud-based web apps

R data science

Github CI/CD

Willingness to learn

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline

Tools

AWS

Github

R

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and maintain high-quality software for a new platform, using a fresh technology stack and modern processes. The role emphasizes rapid learning, ownership of functionality, and collaboration with psychometrics and data science domains.

You will work on a new web application stack, leverage LLM-codegen for agility, develop agent-driven AI architectures, and collaborate with customers to tailor tools to their needs.