Senior Software Engineer - Java

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. With revenues over €5.2 billion in 2013 we provide learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulfill their true potential. We put the learner at the center of everything we do.

We at Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months. The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 350+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America, Europe and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

 

Senior Software Engineer – Java

 

ACCOUNTABILTIES

• Responsible for the core software engineering tasks in a project team
• Is required to work with dynamic teams that are driven by project delivery goals
• Should process the drive to learn and continuously improve on work performances
• Helps and guides software engineers in writing quality code and brings in industry best practices for continuous improvement of the team

 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Graduate with minimum four (4) years of experience in software engineering and design, preferably with some experience in a leadership role

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to interact with prompt and professionalism to the teams across different time zones
• Experience in managing multiple concurrent projects with the ability to mentor and guide team members
• Desirable experience and knowledge on OOP, Analysis & Design, Architectural & Design Pattern, UML, Unit Testing and development of highly scalable web applications
• Basic experience or knowledge on building, packaging & deployment tools, web and application servers and database technologies

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java Fundamentals | J2EE/JEE Platform
• Servlets
• Web Services (SOAP/REST)
• XML, XSL
• Spring Framework
• Data Layer Architectures and Frameworks (eg:- iBatis / Hibernate)
• Oracle or MSSQL & other Database Technologies
• Unit testing frameworks (eg:- JUnit)
• Webservice Testing Tools/Frameworks (eg:- SoapUI)
• Build, Package & Deployment tools (eg:- Ant / Mavan)
• Added advantage - Knowledge of Powershell, Open-source technologies, Unit testing and testing frameworks (nUNit, Selenium), AWS deployments, Python

 

Please submit your CV using the following link

http://pearsonlankavacancies.peopleshr.com/