Senior Software Engineer

Pearson VUE

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining cloud-native data pipelines. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior engineers in data engineering best practices.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeHoboken • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDBJavaMongoDBPythonRDBMS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain cloud‑native data pipelines and platforms supporting PLS and IAR use cases
Own end‑to‑end data workflows across ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers
Develop scalable batch and streaming pipelines that meet performance, reliability, and data‑quality expectations
Ensure data quality, observability, and pipeline reliability through monitoring, automated validation, and alerting
Collaborate with product managers, analytics engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to align data solutions to business goals
Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers, setting best practices for data engineering and platform development

Requirements

What you’ll need

Operates independently on complex, ambiguous data problems
Influences platform and architectural decisions beyond immediate team scope
Provides technical leadership and guidance without direct people management
Balances long‑term platform evolution with short‑term delivery needs
Full‑stack development concepts, including integration with Web APIs
Programming languages: Java, Python
AWS cloud services used for data platforms
Datastores: DynamoDB, Aurora DB, MongoDB, RDBMS
CI/CD and operational practices supporting data platforms

Benefits

Comp & perks

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data pipelinescloud-nativebatch processingstreaming pipelinesdata qualitymonitoringautomated validationJavaPythonCI/CD

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationinfluenceproblem-solvingcommunicationbest practicesindependencebalancing prioritiesguidance