Senior Software Engineer - Remote, Cloud-Native & AI-Driven

Pearson; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate enterprise-grade software for Higher Education's digital platforms. You will guide cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and advance cloud-native, AI-assisted engineering practices to improve product quality and delivery velocity.

The role emphasizes architecture, security, observability, and rapid delivery while collaborating with product, architecture, security, and operations teams to meet business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams.
• Proven cloud-native design, development, and deployment experience.
• Experience in Agile environments and collaborating with distributed teams.
• Mentoring engineers and promoting best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-scale software applications and services.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across multiple systems and engineering teams.
• Ensure software solutions meet quality, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability standards.
• Drive adoption of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, and Operations to deliver business outcomes.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

Git

Automated testing

Docker

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate enterprise-grade software for Higher Education's digital platforms. You will guide cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and advance cloud-native, AI-assisted engineering practices to improve product quality and delivery velocity.

The role emphasizes architecture, security, observability, and rapid delivery while collaborating with product, architecture, security, and operations teams to meet business outcomes.