Senior Full-Stack Engineer — AI-Driven & Cloud-Native

Pearson; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Competitive salary

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to analyze, design, implement, test, and support cutting-edge assessment platforms. You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative team using AWS-hosted services, AI tools, and modern web technologies.

A strong focus on quality, performance, and scalable architectures is required. The role emphasizes design reviews, unit testing, and close cooperation with QA and other teams to deliver mission-critical applications for education clients.

Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud AWS hosted applications.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline.
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent web-based applications.
• Experience with GIT or similar VCS tools.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline.
• Experience working with a range of AI tools and LLMs.
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools.
• Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications.
• Able to think technically and analytically.
• Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture.
• Must assimilate information, distil knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations.
• Must have strong time management skills - including the ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines.
• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work within a team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze & Design - Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's requirements.
• Implement & Perform - Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices.
• Review - Participate in requirements, design and code reviews.
• Test & Deployment - Work closely with QA, configuration Mgmt, and end users to release high quality software; write and execute unit tests.
• Quality/process improvement - Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality.

Skills

Cloud AWS hosted apps

Git

Agile

AI tools & LLMs

Web services integration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or MIS

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or MIS

Tools

Git

CI/CD

AWS

LLM tooling

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to analyze, design, implement, test, and support cutting-edge assessment platforms. You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative team using AWS-hosted services, AI tools, and modern web technologies.

A strong focus on quality, performance, and scalable architectures is required. The role emphasizes design reviews, unit testing, and close cooperation with QA and other teams to deliver mission-critical applications for education clients.