Platform Engineering Lead: AI, Migrations & Scale

Pearson; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is modernizing its content platform with a hands‑on principal engineer who will design target systems and migrate content and data safely. You will own technical plans, drive migrations, and build shared capabilities while maintaining security and reliability across AWS, API‑driven services, and AI‑powered workflows.

You will work across teams to define problems, write critical production code, mentor engineers, and shape long‑term technical roadmaps with a focus on performance,

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software, including 4+ years at staff or principal level or as technical lead across several teams or a large multi‑service system.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Full‑stack depth in core stack: Java and Spring Boot, Node.js and TypeScript, React, with MongoDB and event‑driven services.
• Production experience on AWS, especially ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, and API Gateway, with observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Write production code where the risk is highest and review the hardest changes from other engineers.
• Unblock hard technical problems that span systems, teams, or domains.
• Work with engineering managers, product managers, architects, and quality engineering to trade off long‑term initiatives and current delivery.
• Collaborate with teams across Pearson's lines of business and separate foundational problems from incremental ones.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

React

AWS

MongoDB

Kafka

APIs

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSearch

Solr

Redis

Job description

Pearson is modernizing its content platform with a hands‑on principal engineer who will design target systems and migrate content and data safely. You will own technical plans, drive migrations, and build shared capabilities while maintaining security and reliability across AWS, API‑driven services, and AI‑powered workflows.

You will work across teams to define problems, write critical production code, mentor engineers, and shape long‑term technical roadmaps with a focus on performance,