Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions that support Pearson's Higher Education Digital (HED) products and platforms. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and systems.

The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert, influencing engineering direction, driving modernization efforts, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product, architecture, quality engineering, security, and operations teams. The role also requires a strong focus on operational excellence, cloud-native development, automation, and AI-assisted engineering practices to improve product quality, reliability, and delivery velocity.

The following responsibilities represent the general expectations for this role. Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on business needs.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-scale software applications and services.
• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple systems, services, and engineering teams.
• Ensure software solutions meet the highest standards for quality, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Participate in and influence architecture and design discussions, providing technical recommendations and guidance.
• Drive adoption of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, Dev Ops, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and solution quality.
• Collaborate effectively with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, and Operations teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and technical challenges and communicate them proactively to stakeholders.
• Provide realistic estimates and consistently meet delivery commitments.
• Contribute to platform modernization, cloud migration, scalability, security, and reliability initiatives.
• Continuously enhance domain expertise and stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Demonstrate accountability, ownership, professionalism, and alignment with Pearson values and ethical standards.
• Support operational excellence through participation in incident management and production support activities when required.

This position has no direct people-management responsibilities.

However, the role is expected to:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Influence engineering practices, architectural decisions, and technical direction.
• Act as a subject matter expert within the organization.
• Guide less experienced engineers through coaching and technical collaboration.

To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to execute the responsibilities listed above effectively. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and experience required.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting enterprise-scale applications and services.

Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives and delivering solutions across multiple teams.

Proven experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications.

Experience working within Agile software development environments.

Strong experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams.

Proven ability to influence technical decisions and drive engineering excellence without direct managerial authority.

Experience supporting mission-critical production systems and customer-facing applications.

Experience mentoring software engineers and promoting engineering best practices.

Required:

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), software design principles, and architectural patterns.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more modern…