Software Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager leading Pearson’s Enterprise Learning & Skills team. Guiding Ruby on Rails and React development for a global digital credentials platform.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and support a team of 5–8 software engineers building Ruby on Rails services and React frontends
- Own team well-being, performance, and immediate output
- Plan and allocate daily and sprint work
- Monitor progress against delivery schedules and keep projects on track
- Troubleshoot obstacles, clarify requirements, and coordinate handoffs across engineers, teams, and vendors
- Triage bugs and production issues to minimize customer disruption
- Maintain coding, QA, code review, testing, and documentation standards
- Give real-time constructive feedback and run regular 1:1s
- Celebrate team milestones and recognize individual contributions
- Own onboarding and skill development for new team members
- Identify and introduce team-level process improvements
- Escalate unresolved or higher-impact issues to senior engineering leadership
- Champion responsible use of AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, documentation, and debugging
- Uphold secure, ethical, and resilient engineering practices
- Partner with Product, Customer Success, and external vendors to deliver reliable work
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years managing or formally leading a software engineering team
- Working familiarity with Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with API management, cloud computing, DevOps practices, and software design
- Technical acumen to guide discussions and evaluate trade-offs
- Proven track record of reliable team delivery, coding and QA standards, timely task completion, and dependable schedules
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Exceptional collaboration and communication with engineers, non-technical stakeholders, and external vendors
- Experience onboarding and developing engineers
- Sound judgment about resolving issues locally versus escalating
- Adaptability and commitment to continuous learning
- Strong understanding of information and data security fundamentals
- Ethical, customer-centric approach to decisions
- Comfortable using AI tools and guiding a team in coding, testing, documentation, and learning
- Nice to have: hands-on Rails, React, or full-stack engineering background
- Nice to have: AWS and Azure production workload experience, CI/CD, and automated deployment practices
- Nice to have: experience with third-party or vendor teams
- Nice to have: resilience planning, incident management, or on-call processes
- Nice to have: distributed/service-oriented systems and asynchronous event-driven communication
- Nice to have: experience introducing AI agents or automated AI tooling
Benefits:
- Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
- Benefits offered by Pearson (details referenced via link in posting)
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