Senior Platform Engineer: AI Content & Cloud

Pearson; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is modernizing its content platform and seeks a hands-on principal engineer to design target systems, migrate content and users, and push architectural decisions across teams. You will own multiple technology tracks and contribute across UI, workflow orchestration, AI, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.

This role requires 12+ years of production software experience including staff level, with deep Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.
• 12+ years building production software.
• 4+ years at staff or principal level or as technical lead across several teams or a large multi‑service system.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical plan and delivery for several technology tracks, from design through launch.
• Migrations of large volumes of content and data with data integrity checks.
• Shared capabilities built once and used everywhere via clean APIs.
• Honest assessment and prioritization of technical debt and fixes.
• Escalated incidents as the technical point of contact through RCAs.
• Security and disaster recovery planning and implementation.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

Node.js

React

AWS

MongoDB

TypeScript

Software architecture

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

New Relic

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Job description

Pearson is modernizing its content platform and seeks a hands-on principal engineer to design target systems, migrate content and users, and push architectural decisions across teams. You will own multiple technology tracks and contribute across UI, workflow orchestration, AI, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.

This role requires 12+ years of production software experience including staff level, with deep Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and AWS.