Senior Software Engineer - Cloud-Native & AI-Driven

Pearson; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure software supporting Higher Education digital platforms. You will lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and influence architecture while focusing on modernization, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted practices.

The role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural thinking, and collaboration with product, architecture, security, and operations teams to improve product quality and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale applications and services.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and driving engineering excellence.
• Experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Ability to influence technical decisions without direct managerial authority.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems and customer-facing applications.
• Mentoring software engineers and promoting engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-scale software applications and services.
• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple systems, services, and engineering teams.
• Ensure software solutions meet high standards for quality, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, providing technical recommendations.
• Drive adoption of modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity and solution quality.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, and Operations to achieve outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
• Identify risks and communicate them proactively to stakeholders.
• Provide realistic estimates and meet delivery commitments.
• Contribute to platform modernization, cloud migration, scalability, security, and reliability initiatives.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices.

Skills

OOP and design principles

Java

Spring Boot

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

AWS cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Git

Automated testing

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Performance optimization

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

AWS

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure software supporting Higher Education digital platforms. You will lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and influence architecture while focusing on modernization, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted practices.

The role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural thinking, and collaboration with product, architecture, security, and operations teams to improve product quality and