Senior Software Engineer

Exam Developer is a web-based exam development platform that allows our customers to write, review, and manage questions for their exams (). Exam Developer is a leading web-based tool for creating tests that certify test-takers in the professional skills they need. Customers rely on Exam Developer to support their full workflow around question writing, collaborative review, scoring, and test management.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a highly skilled individual contributor and a technical authority within your area. You lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of complex software components, services, and platforms that enable key business capabilities and customer experiences.

Working with significant independence, you evaluate technical options, guide design decisions, identify risks, and build scalable, maintainable, resilient solutions. You are frequently consulted on architecture reviews, performance optimization, operational stability, and complex problem resolution. You lead through expertise rather than formal authority — mentoring engineers, improving practices, and helping teams make sound technical and release decisions. You partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Product Architects, Quality Engineering, and Dev Ops to deliver secure, reliable, and highly scalable solutions.

Technical leadership (through expertise)

• Lead design and implementation for complex software components, services, and platforms.
• Drive technical decision-making for major features and engineering initiatives.
• Influence software architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards within your domain.
• Lead technical design sessions and contribute to architectural discussions with Product Architects.
• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Participate in interviews to help assess and hire engineering talent.
• Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to stakeholders outside your immediate team.
• Design and deliver enterprise-scale, secure, maintainable, and scalable software solutions.
• Evaluate design alternatives and recommend approaches balancing value, risk, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for critical production issues.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt, performance bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and operational risk.

Quality, delivery, and collaboration

• Champion engineering best practices across testing, automation, deployment, observability, and security.
• Partner with Quality Engineering to advance quality-by-design and automation.
• Support release planning, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical estimation, and platform modernization.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, distributed systems.
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentorship within Agile engineering teams.
• Experience designing and operating within cloud-native environments.

This is the current stack for the team you would join. Direct experience is preferred, and strong experience with comparable languages, frameworks, and toolsets will also be considered.

• Angular, including an in-house Angular-based UI framework
• Containerized services orchestrated by Kubernetes
• Microsoft SQL Server and relational databases
• AI-assisted development tools, as provided by Pearson

• Strong software design and system architecture skills.
• Experience building highly available and scalable enterprise applications.
• Cloud-based Dev Ops workflows, CI/CD, application security, observability, and performance engineering.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering capability.
• Familiarity with LLMs / ML concepts and practical use of AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering work, preferred.
• Experience supporting accessibility compliance and WCAG standards, preferred.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.

• Delivers complex technical solutions that support critical business objectives.
• Builds software with strong reliability, maintainability,…