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Pearson VUE

Software Engineer III

Pearson VUE

. Design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs alongside modern JavaScript/React frontends .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • New Jersey • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ApacheAWSAzureCloudJavaScriptKafkaPostgresPulsarReactRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs alongside modern JavaScript/React frontends
  • Own the quality, performance, and reliability of services and frontends
  • Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of complex, well-scoped features and systems
  • Write clear, maintainable, well-tested code
  • Simplify services, improve patterns, and reduce technical debt
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing
  • Evolve the platform to support new services and capabilities across adjacent codebases and domains
  • Partner with external vendors and Product and Customer Success stakeholders to turn requirements into technical solutions
  • Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and debugging
  • Follow and promote secure, scalable, cloud-native web application development practices
  • Contribute to an API-driven platform used globally to issue and verify digital credentials
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and raise the technical bar for the engineering team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL
  • Proven track record of making high-impact technical decisions in complex production environments
  • Experience shipping well-tested code and giving constructive code reviews
  • Excellent cross-functional communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience in software architecture, system design, and scalability
  • Strong hands-on engineering background
  • Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers
  • Experience with distributed or service-oriented systems
  • Experience with asynchronous, event-driven communication between services
  • Comfort working across more than one codebase and ramping quickly into unfamiliar systems
  • Comfort using AI tools for coding, testing, documentation, and learning, with sound judgment when validating AI-generated output
  • Nice to have: production workloads on AWS and Azure
  • Nice to have: CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices
  • Nice to have: third-party or vendor-delivered service integrations
  • Nice to have: web application security best practices
  • Nice to have: design systems, component libraries, or advanced frontend tooling
  • Nice to have: scalability, resilience, or performance work at scale
  • Nice to have: Apache Pulsar or Apache Kafka experience

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
  • Benefits offered by Pearson (details referenced via a benefits link)