Pearson

Pearson

Staff Software Engineer

Annapolis, Maryland · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$180kDetected 9 hours ago
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About the role

  • This role requires strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating in ambiguous spaces.
  • You will be breaking down complex customer problems into short-cycle product experiments and learning quickly through feedback.
  • This is a primarily remote role, with occasional travel for in-person collaboration with colleagues and customers.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship end-to-end product experiences across modern web applications, owning delivery from early concept through production release and iteration.
  • Design and manage AI-powered capabilities across retrieval, context shaping, and personalization (RAG, context engineering, collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, etc.), balancing quality, safety, privacy, and latency.
  • Build or leverage API-first, versioned REST microservices that expose domain capabilities in a consistent, reliable way across experiences.
  • Champion pragmatic software quality practices: code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, and cloud cost-aware design.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Research, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to translate needs into working software that meets business outcomes.
  • Independently create a test strategy (unit/integration/e2e) aligned to risk, including security testing.
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals (lightweight but clear), run experiments, and document tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial ownership of full-stack web applications shipped to production.
  • Experience designing or working within microservices and API-first architectures, including service boundaries, contracts, and integration patterns.

Nice to have

  • Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to navigate complexity, assess tradeoffs, and execute with confidence in ambiguous environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • ideally with Ed-Fi-aligned Data Services.
  • Experience with experimentation frameworks (feature flags, A/B testing) and product analytics to evaluate shipped work.
  • Experience with eCommerce and related analytics tools and platforms (Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Statsig, Grafana, etc.)
  • Advanced degree or certifications (MBA or equivalent).
  • Hands-on expertise bootstrapping AWS, including designing, deploying, and operating production workloads (serverless and/or container-based), plus monitoring and cost controls.

Skills

  • Ensure regulatory, compliance, security, and privacy expectations are met throughout development and release.
  • Integrate telemetry for performance, reliability, availability, and usage insights.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Compensation

  • $140k-$180k

Company info

  • 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.
  • For us, learning isn't just what we do.
  • It's who we are.
  • To learn more: We are Pearson.
  • Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify.
  • Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
  • 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.
  • If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
  • Job: Engineering
  • Job Family: TECHNOLOGY
  • Organization: Virtual Learning
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