Lead Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Content Systems

Pearson; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is modernizing its content platform by building shared platform services. You will be a principal engineer, designing target systems, migrating large content assets, and delivering scalable capabilities across teams.

Expect hands‑on coding, technical mentorship, and leading critical decisions with leadership. You will own architecture across Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and AWS, including observability, CI/CD, and IaC.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software, including 4+ years at staff or principal level or as technical lead.
• Led a re-platforming or legacy migration of a production system with active users and data.
• Full‑stack depth in Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React with MongoDB and event-driven services.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical plan and delivery for multiple technology tracks from design through launch.
• Migrate large content and data volumes ensuring no loss for downstream products.
• Define shared platform capabilities exposed via clean APIs (media, search, AI content services).
• Provide a costed view of technical debt and priority fixes.
• Serve as technical focal point for incidents with root-cause analysis and preventive fixes.
• Ensure security and stability across runtime, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and DR planning.
• Establish and enforce design patterns, tooling, reliability, observability, and performance standards.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

React

MongoDB

AWS

SQS/SNS/Kafka

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSearch

Solr

Redis

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

SQS

Kafka

Terraform

New Relic

CloudWatch

API Gateway

ECS Fargate

Lambda

S3

Job description

Pearson is modernizing its content platform by building shared platform services. You will be a principal engineer, designing target systems, migrating large content assets, and delivering scalable capabilities across teams.

Expect hands‑on coding, technical mentorship, and leading critical decisions with leadership. You will own architecture across Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and AWS, including observability, CI/CD, and IaC.