Senior Software Engineer — Architecture, Mentoring & AI

Pearson; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a senior software engineer in Phoenix to design and deliver end-to-end features across a cloud-native stack. You will write clean, scalable code, participate in architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers as the team grows.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Customer Success to translate requirements into robust solutions, while employing AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and maintain high code quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency with 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.

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

Ruby on Rails

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Service-oriented architectures

Code reviews

Mentoring

AI tools for coding

Security best practices

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Pulsar

Kafka

Azure

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior software engineer in Phoenix to design and deliver end-to-end features across a cloud-native stack. You will write clean, scalable code, participate in architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers as the team grows.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Customer Success to translate requirements into robust solutions, while employing AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and maintain high code quality.