Senior Software Engineer - ExamDeveloper

JOB DESCRIPTION 

About Pearson VUE 

At Pearson VUE (www.pearsonVUE.com), we believe learning takes us from potential to progress. That is why we deliver high-stakes exams that help industries and individuals make an impact on their professions, communities, and the lives of others. Our customers’ high-stakes certification, licensure, admissions, and other credentialing exams help people advance in technology, government, and professional careers, as well as attain educational growth. Pearson VUE offers proctored exams through the world's largest network of test centers in addition to testing in online and un proctored environments. Our Products and Technology team powers our business to deliver over 19 million exams annually at 20,000 test centers in 188 countries.  

Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com. As a global business, we understand the critical link between technology and business strategy and integrate them closely to help people succeed in their lifetime of learning. From leadership to stable teams, we foster collaboration and teamwork towards building a collective “we” culture in everything.  

Summary   

As a Senior Software Developer, you will be a senior engineer among a 5-person dev team adding new features to the ExamDeveloper tool using C# and Angular into the ExamDeveloper web app. 

The Tool:  

ExamDeveloper is a web-based exam development platform that allows our customers to write, review and manage questions on their exams  (https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/test-owners/develop.html).  ExamDeveloper is the leading web-based tool for creating tests to certify test-takers in the professional skills they require.   Customers rely on ExamDeveloper to support their entire workflow around question writing, collaborative review, scoring, and test management.  

The team’s current focus area is our Item Assist features.  Item Assist enables users to use generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) to create test questions for their exams.  Users can leverage these AI capabilities within ExamDeveloper as a way to be more efficient at their job.  Our company has many ideas on how to further enhance Item Assist’s capabilities, so this is a growing area of our product offerings. 

Special note: this role and this specific team will not be doing AI-based development work.  Other engineering teams at Pearson are working on the AI capabilities that power the Item Assist product.  The Item Assist features in ExamDeveloper represent the user interface and the application experience for our customers.  Therefore, skills like machine learning, prompting, large language models, etc are not applicable to this role, but some knowledge about AI concepts could be beneficial. 

You will partner with the Product Manager to bring their vision to reality and work alongside the Architect, Project Manager, and Business Analyst.  

ExamDeveloper’s primary tech stack is .NET and C# on the backend and Angular on the frontend hosted in Microsoft Azure.  Item Assist will use an in-house Angular-based UI framework.  You’ll work with containerized services orchestrated by Kubernetes and Microsoft SQL Server.   

We strongly prefer Angular experience because it is an important technology for this product. 

Work Location: 

In this role it is possible to work remotely anywhere in the USA, but many people you’d regularly work with are based in the Central USA timezone in the Minneapolis, MN area.  It is required to work during most of Central USA’s normal business hours. 

Duties 

Develop new features and other technical implementation work 

Fix defects that are reported by QA or by users 

Create unit tests to verify correctness of the code 

Create techincal designs and make technical decisions with the partnership of the Architect 

Enforce high standards of software development to achieve quality 

Coach other team members to help them grow and bring out their best work 

Release and On-call duties -- Participate in release deployment activities and a rotating on-call escalation system during non-business hours. 

 
Required Education and Experience:    

5+ years work experience as a software developer 

2+ years experience with Angular or similar front-end software frameworks (l