Senior PHP Web Developer

Role: Senior Software Developer

Division: Pearson Assessment Services

Location: Rotherham, Oxford, London or Manchester

Salary: £45 - 55k, plus on target bonus of 8%

About Pearson: Our purpose at Pearson is to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. At the heart of this is a commitment to sustainable practices and meaningful, measurable outcomes. We are the world's leading learning company. Our ability to help people learn is built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market.

About Pearson Assessment Services: The Pearson Assessment Services (PAS) team provides assessment services to the UK and international assessment markets, supporting government education departments with project management, operational delivery and technical solutions.

About you

You'll have significant prior relevant experience working on full stack development, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and ideally working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban, although this is not essential.

Key Skills & Experience

• Successful completion of software and data services projects, specifically with the use of the Laravel development framework on both front and backend services
• Design and implementation of DB structures in MySQL
• Creating technical specifications based on requirements given
• Estimation and development following an Agile approach
• Participation in regular peer review processes
• Delivery of complex digital projects to tight deadlines
• Working with a global team of developers
• Assisting with architectural discussions and plans
• Designing software systems for cloud-based architecture
• Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements
• Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure applications are successfully delivered to production
• Providing production support to applications
• Applying best practices for chosen development platform

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Exposure to Agile development methodology.
• Very strong experience with PHP and frameworks (Laravel), MySQL
• Awareness of application architecture in cloud-based environments (AWS)
• Understanding of key architectural components, such as caches and queues
• Experience using Docker and containers
• Proven track record of working in a business systems development project environment from beginning to end
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Travel may be required in support of projects
• Strong knowledge of UI design
• Experience in the education sector and assessment beneficial
• Experience of designing large data, high traffic, scalable solutions
• Experience of JavaScript and associated frameworks (Vue.js especially) highly beneficial

Job Location and Hours

The role is aligned to our Rotherham, London, Oxfordshire or Manchester offices in the UK, working a 37.5 hour week.

All our roles are hybrid working; our current policy requires our team to visit their base office no more than once a week, and with the possibility of occasional business travel to other Pearson sites.

What to expect from Pearson

Did you know Pearson is one of the 10 most innovative education companies of 2022?

At Pearson, we add life to a lifetime of learning so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact.

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.

Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 15631