Senior Platform Engineer - AI Tools, Scale & Mentorship

Pearson; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of complex features. You will write clean, tested code, reduce technical debt, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with Product and Customer Success.

The role involves evolving the platform across codebases, leveraging AI tools, and ensuring secure, scalable cloud-native web apps. We value architecture and design expertise, distributed systems experience, and the ability to communicate across technical

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency with our core stack: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
• Proven track record of making high-impact technical decisions in complex production environments, shipping well-tested code, and giving constructive code reviews.
• Excellent cross-functional communication, equally effective with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in software architecture, system design, and scalability with a strong hands-on background.
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.
• Experience with distributed or service-oriented systems and asynchronous, event-driven communication between services.
• Comfort working across more than one codebase and ramping quickly into unfamiliar systems.
• You should be comfortable using AI tools to assist with coding, testing, documentation, and learning, and, importantly, exercising sound engineering judgment about their output.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, well-scoped features and systems end to end
• Write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and reduce complexity by simplifying services, improving patterns, and paying down technical debt
• Mentor junior engineers and level up the team through code reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing
• Evolve the platform to support new services and capabilities, including work across adjacent codebases and domains
• Partner with external vendors and stakeholders across Product and Customer Success to turn requirements into sound technical solutions
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and debugging
• Follow and promote best practices for secure, scalable, cloud-native web application development

Skills

Cross-functional communication

Software architecture

System design

Mentoring junior engineers

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

Apache Pulsar

Apache Kafka

Job description

Pearson is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of complex features. You will write clean, tested code, reduce technical debt, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with Product and Customer Success.

The role involves evolving the platform across codebases, leveraging AI tools, and ensuring secure, scalable cloud-native web apps. We value architecture and design expertise, distributed systems experience, and the ability to communicate across technical