About the role

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Senior individual contributor responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable, secure, and reliable software for Pearson’s Higher Education Digital (HED) products and platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-scale applications and services.
Lead complex technical initiatives across multiple systems, services, and engineering teams.
Ensure solutions meet high standards for quality, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
Influence architecture and design decisions; provide technical recommendations.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including:
- CI/CD, automated testing
- DevOps and observability
- cloud-native architectures
Use AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity and solution quality.
Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, and Operations to deliver business outcomes.
Provide technical leadership through code/design reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
Troubleshoot complex production issues with root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
Identify and proactively communicate risks, dependencies, and technical challenges.
Deliver realistic estimates and meet commitments.
Contribute to platform modernization, cloud migration, scalability, security, and reliability initiatives.
Support operational excellence through incident management/production support when needed.

Managerial / Leadership Expectations

No direct people-management responsibilities.
Expected to provide technical leadership, mentorship, coaching, and guidance as a subject matter expert.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related.
8+ years professional software engineering experience for enterprise-scale applications/services.
Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
Experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications.
Experience working in Agile environments (cut off in posting, but stated as Agile).

About Pearson

Pearson is a global education company that provides digital learning products and platforms. Its Higher Education Digital (HED) organization builds and supports enterprise-scale software systems used to deliver education services at scale.