Senior Software Engineer - Platform & Architecture

Pearson; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking an experienced software engineer in New Jersey to lead end-to-end feature delivery, mentor teammates, and evolve a cloud-native platform. You will work across multiple codebases, leverage AI-assisted tools, and partner with Product and Customer Success to craft robust technical solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural decisions, and maintaining high security and scalability standards in production environments.

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.

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

Software architecture

System design

Mentoring juniors

Code reviews

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Tools

Apache Pulsar

Apache Kafka

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Pearson is seeking an experienced software engineer in New Jersey to lead end-to-end feature delivery, mentor teammates, and evolve a cloud-native platform. You will work across multiple codebases, leverage AI-assisted tools, and partner with Product and Customer Success to craft robust technical solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural decisions, and maintaining high security and scalability standards in production environments.