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Senior Software Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - Texas 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $140K - $160K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ November 9th, 2026
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Pearson is hiring a Senior Software Engineer. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining complex web applications as a full stack developer, setting technical standards, leading development processes, and ensuring project milestones are achieved. The engineer actively contributes to code quality and architecture decisions across front-end and back-end technologies, leveraging extensive experience and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Highlights
  • Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications as a full stack developer.
  • Lead technical standards, conduct code reviews, and ensure high code quality using static analysis tools.
  • Make strategic architectural decisions to create scalable and maintainable software solutions with detailed documentation.
  • Collaborate effectively across teams to align on project goals; strong interpersonal and communication skills required.
  • Over 10 years of full-stack development experience, including Angular 15+, Java 21, JavaScript, REST, and Spring Boot 3.x+.
  • Proficient with IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Docker, MySQL 8, AWS, and Jenkins.
  • Experience with unit and integration testing; advocate for clean code and DevOps practices including CI/CD.
  • Skilled in AI-assisted development tools such as Claude (Anthropic) and GitHub Copilot.
  • Compensation ranges from $140,000 to $160,000 annually plus eligibility for an incentive program.
  • Role is full-time within Pearson's Assessment & Qualifications organization, classified under Engineering technology.

Senior Software Engineer Full Description

Full Stack Developer

A Full Stack Developer is a senior-level software engineer with expertise in both front-end and back-end development, responsible for design, build, and maintain complex web applications, while setting technical standards, guiding the development process, and ensuring project milestones are met effectively; they possess a deep understanding of various programming languages, frameworks, and database technologies, and actively contribute to code quality and architecture decisions across the entire application stack.

Soft Skills & Responsibilities

  • Demonstrated ability to develop, test, maintain, and improve high-quality, production-grade code in a collaborative team environment.

  • Contribute to code quality through rigorous code reviews and the use of static analysis and quality enforcement tools.

  • Self-motivated and capable of working independently with a high sense of ownership, initiative, and bias for action.

  • Strong architectural thinking — capable of making strategic technical decisions and defining scalable, maintainable software solutions.

  • Skilled at creating software concepts, maintaining detailed documentation of design decisions, and ensuring future-proof architecture.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and align project goals.

Technical Skills

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack development and enterprise-grade applications.

  • Expertise in Angular 15+, Java 21, JavaScript, REST and frameworks such as Spring Boot 3.x+.

  • Proficient with tools and technologies including IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Docker, MySQL 8, AWS, and Jenkins.

  • Passionate about co-creating solutions with end-users and integrating fast customer feedback into the development process.

  • Advocate of clean code principles and DevOps culture, with a strong understanding of continuous integration and deployment practices.

  • Proven ability to drive projects independently, solve complex technical challenges, and deliver robust solutions under tight timelines.

  • Experience with unit testing and integration testing

  • Fluent with AI-assisted development — Claude (Anthropic), GitHub Copilot; can review, validate, and extend AI-generated code

  • Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

  • Excellent team player, with strong collaboration and leadership abilities.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.

The full-time salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here .

Applications will be accepted through 20th November 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

Apply today and imagine the impact you can make.

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