[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Pearson

Role Description

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.

• Evaluate technical options, guide design decisions, identify risks, and build scalable, maintainable, resilient solutions.
• Consulted on architecture reviews, performance optimization, operational stability, and complex problem resolution.
• Mentor engineers, improve practices, and help teams make sound technical and release decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Product Architects, Quality Engineering, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Software development
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Technology Stack

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

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong software design and system architecture skills.
• Experience building highly available and scalable enterprise applications.
• Cloud-based DevOps 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.

Success Measures

• Delivers complex technical solutions that support critical business objectives.
• Builds software with strong reliability, maintainability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Influences technical direction through sound engineering judgment and well-supported recommendations.
• Is sought out by other engineers for guidance on difficult technical problems.
• Improves the capability of the broader engineering team through mentorship.
• Contributes to hiring quality through active participation in the interview process.
• Communicates technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders outside engineering, building trust and alignment.
• Identifies and addresses technical risks before they impact delivery, operations, or customers.

Leadership Behaviors

• Customer Centricity: Anticipates customer needs by designing solutions that improve reliability, usability, performance, and scalability.
• Raise the Performance Bar: Sets a high standard for engineering quality and continuously explores better tools, frameworks, and approaches.
• Exceptional Collaboration for Value: Builds strong technical partnerships and helps teams make better decisions through knowledge sharing and constructive challenge.
• Our Leaders Inspire: Leads through credibility, expertise, and mentorship, creating an environment where engineers grow and solve hard problems together.

Compensation

• Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not anticipated for this position.
• Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.
• The full-time salary range for this role is $120,000 - $130,000.
• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
• Applications will be accepted through November 9th, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.