Senior Software Engineer (Rails/React) - Lead & Mentor, Remote

Pearson; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer III to design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs, alongside modern React frontends. You will lead feature delivery end-to-end, drive architectural decisions, and mentor junior engineers to elevate the team’s capabilities.

You will work across multiple codebases, collaborate with Product and Customer Success, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve coding, testing, and debugging. Remote-friendly with competitive compensation.

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

• Design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs alongside modern JavaScript/React frontends, taking responsibility for their quality, performance, and reliability.
• 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

Mentoring

System design

Distributed systems

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer III to design, build, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and APIs, alongside modern React frontends. You will lead feature delivery end-to-end, drive architectural decisions, and mentor junior engineers to elevate the team’s capabilities.

You will work across multiple codebases, collaborate with Product and Customer Success, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve coding, testing, and debugging. Remote-friendly with competitive compensation.