About the role

Role overview

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer on Pearson’s Enterprise Learning & Skills (ELS) engineering team. You’ll help build, scale, and evolve a global, API-driven platform for issuing and verifying digital credentials, owning significant parts of the system and raising the team’s technical bar.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and API functionality alongside React frontends.
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, well-scoped features and systems.
Write and review clear, maintainable, well-tested code; reduce complexity and pay down technical debt.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Evolve the platform by standing up and supporting new services and capabilities, including work with external vendors.
Collaborate with Product and Customer Success to translate requirements into sound technical solutions.
Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly for coding, testing, and debugging.
Follow and promote secure, scalable, cloud-native development best practices.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software development experience.
Proficiency with core stack: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, PostgreSQL.
Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions in complex production environments; strong code review skills.
Excellent cross-functional communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience with software architecture, system design, scalability, and hands-on delivery.
Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.
Familiarity with distributed/service-oriented systems and asynchronous, event-driven communication.
Ability to work across multiple codebases and ramp quickly.
Comfort using AI tools with strong engineering judgment (validate output, know when to rely/avoid).

Nice to have

Hands-on experience deploying/operating workloads on AWS and Azure.
Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
Experience integrating with third-party/vendor-delivered services.
Strong web security fundamentals and a track record of improving security across a codebase.
Experience with design systems/component libraries and advanced frontend tooling.
Experience with scalability/resilience/performance at scale.
Experience with event streaming/messaging systems such as Apache Pulsar or Apache Kafka.

About Pearson

Pearson is a global education company focused on delivering learning and skills solutions. Its Enterprise Learning & Skills organization builds large-scale platforms and services that support issuing and verifying digital credentials used worldwide.

Senior Software Engineer

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