Senior Software Engineering - Telecommute

Senior Software Engineer
Location: Remote - US | Team: Engineering - Enterprise Learning & Skills

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Learning & Skills (ELS) engineering team and help build, scale, and evolve a large-scale, API-driven platform used globally to issue and verify digital credentials. This is a hands‑on role for an experienced engineer who will own significant parts of the platform today, help design and build new systems and features, and raise the technical bar for the team.

You'll work closely with other senior engineers and technical leads, contribute to architectural decisions, and mentor earlier-career engineers. As the platform grows, you'll help evolve it by standing up and supporting new services and capabilities, including services delivered in partnership with external vendors.

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

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

7+ years of professional software development experience

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

Experience in software architecture, system design, and scalability with a strong hands‑on background

AI‑Native Expectations
You should be comfortable using AI tools to assist with coding, testing, documentation, and learning, and, importantly, exercising sound engineering judgment about their output. This means validating AI‑generated code, knowing when to rely on it and when not to and staying curious about how AI can responsibly improve developer productivity across the team.

Hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and operating production workloads on AWS and Azure

Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices that raise delivery velocity across the team

Experience integrating with, or building alongside, third‑party or vendor‑delivered services

Strong understanding of web application security best practices with a track record of raising the security bar across a codebase

Experience with design systems, component libraries, or advanced frontend tooling

Experience with scalability, resilience, or performance work at scale

The minimum full‑time salary range is between $150,000 - $180,000.

Applications will be accepted through 31st of August. At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E‑Verify. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote