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Web Application Senior Software Engineer (onsite), United States, MA, Boston
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Web Application Senior Software Engineer (onsite), United States, MA, Boston
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Posted: May 8, 2008
Job title: Web Application Senior Software Engineer
Company name: Pearson
Internal ID: CTG-178
Location: United States, MA, Boston
Travel: 0%
Terms of employment: Salaried employee
Hours: Full time
Onsite: yes
Description:
Web Application Senior Software Engineer
POSITION SUMMARY:
Technology is transforming the way we educate students. Pearson
understands this fact, and it is committed to playing a leadership role in
the transformation. The software development group you would be joining,
referred to internally at Pearson as the Mastering team, is responsible
for an online homework / tutoring system for college science students. The
specific products are called: MasteringPhysics, MasteringChemistry,
MasteringAstronomy, and MasteringBiology. We are extremely proud of these
products they are based on educational research done at M.I.T. and they
have proven very effective.
The Mastering product line is currently built on top of standard web
technology: Perl, Flash, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, MySQL, and Apache. It is a
high-throughput database application that services hundreds of thousands of
students.
We are looking for a senior web developer to help with both design and
implementation. We are expecting continued rapid growth in usage of the
platform as well as continued demands for new functionality. To satisfy
these demands we will need to continually refactor the application as well
as build entirely new subsystems.
We are most interested in raw intelligence, deep web application
experience, and a go-anywhere, do-anything attitude. We are looking for
someone who is happiest when the entire codebase is his/her playground.
That said, right now we are particularly interested in candidates with
expertise in User Interaction / User Experience technology. We are just
starting to plan out significant UI/UX changes, and we need someone with
experience in web UI/UX technologies to interact with out our existing
UI/UX product management and design folks.
The emphasis is on getting good work done effectively rather than on
adhering to someones idea of perfect process. It is a small development
team. You can have a major impact on the team dynamics and the products
evolution.
If you would like to know more about our products, take a look at the
websites for each product:
www.masteringphysics.com (click on the Listen to Dr. David
Pritchard link)
www.masteringchemistry.com
www.masteringastronomy.com,
www.masteringbiology.com
Required skills:
QUALIFICATIONS:
Web application design and implementation expertise
Experience with UI/UX technologies both browser and server-side
Good communication skills ability to work effectively with
product management and UI/UX designers
Perl (or equivalent) expertise
Software Engineering Background
Smart, Dedicated, Team Player
Comfortable working on a large (but organized) software project
Experience with multi-tier, high-throughput web applications
Database programming experience, working knowledge of SQL
Science, Engineering, and/or Math background is a plus
Educational / Teaching background is a plus
Experience with the general Open Source toolset is a plus
URL for more information:
http://www.pearsoned.com/careers/jobs.htm
Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/8330#contact
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Web Application Senior Software Engineer (onsite), United States, MA, Boston
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