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Senior Software Engineer leading scalable software development for Pearson VUE's OnVUE remote proctoring platform. Designing cloud-native distributed systems, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor software engineers across one or more development squads
- Provide technical direction and coaching to team members
- Establish and promote engineering best practices
- Drive code quality, maintainability, security, and performance standards
- Lead technical design sessions and architectural discussions
- Collaborate with Product Architects on platform strategy
- Design, develop, and deliver enterprise-scale software solutions
- Develop new features and technical enhancements across the OnVUE platform
- Create scalable and maintainable system designs
- Participate in complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments
- Support release planning and deployment activities
- Partner with Product Managers and Business Analysts to refine requirements
- Work with Quality Engineering to improve quality and automation
- Coordinate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams on cloud-native solutions
- Contribute to roadmap planning and technical estimation
- Support platform modernization and technical debt reduction initiatives
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of technical leadership or lead developer experience
- Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems
- Experience leading Agile engineering teams
- Experience working within cloud-native environments
- Demonstrated technical leadership focused on engineering quality and continuous improvement
- Strong software design and system architecture skills
- Experience with cloud-based DevOps workflows and CI/CD environments
- Experience building highly available and scalable enterprise applications
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience mentoring developers and building high-performing engineering teams
- Familiarity with LLMs and machine learning concepts preferred
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or comparable platforms preferred
- Experience with application security, observability, and performance engineering preferred
- Experience supporting accessibility compliance initiatives and WCAG standards preferred
Benefits:
- Annual incentive program
- Benefits offered by Pearson (linked as 'here')
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