Senior Software Engineer — Lead Architecture & Mentoring

Pearson; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson in the United States (Montpelier, VT) is seeking a senior software engineer to lead end-to-end feature design and delivery. You will write robust, well-tested code and reduce complexity while mentoring peers and driving architectural decisions across multiple codebases.

You will collaborate with Product and Customer Success, employ AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, and promote secure, scalable cloud-native development practices.

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 and shipping well-tested code.
• 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.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex features 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

System design

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Code reviews

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Pulsar

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

Job description

Pearson in the United States (Montpelier, VT) is seeking a senior software engineer to lead end-to-end feature design and delivery. You will write robust, well-tested code and reduce complexity while mentoring peers and driving architectural decisions across multiple codebases.

You will collaborate with Product and Customer Success, employ AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, and promote secure, scalable cloud-native development practices.