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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 1MO AGO
About the role
Senior Software Engineer - ExamDeveloper
Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a highly skilled individual contributor and a technical authority within your area. You lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of complex software components, services, and platforms that enable key business capabilities and customer experiences.
Working with significant independence, you evaluate technical options, guide design decisions, identify risks, and build scalable, maintainable, resilient solutions. You are frequently consulted on architecture reviews, performance optimization, operational stability, and complex problem resolution. You lead through expertise rather than formal authority — mentoring engineers, improving practices, and helping teams make sound technical and release decisions. You partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Product Architects, Quality Engineering, and DevOps to deliver secure, reliable, and highly scalable solutions.
About ExamDeveloper
ExamDeveloper is a web-based exam development platform that allows our customers to write, review, and manage questions for their exams (https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/test-owners/develop.html). ExamDeveloper is a leading web-based tool for creating tests that certify test-takers in the professional skills they need. Customers rely on ExamDeveloper to support their full workflow around question writing, collaborative review, scoring, and test management.
Choose the pathway that fits your experience
We have opportunities for strong senior individual contributors and for engineers ready to combine hands-on development with squad leadership. You do not need to decide which pathway fits before applying. We will explore your experience and interests during the recruitment process.
Senior Software Engineer
You will own complex technical work from design through delivery and operational readiness. You will contribute to architecture and technical decisions, improve engineering quality, troubleshoot critical issues, mentor colleagues and help modernise the platform.
Senior Software Engineer, Squad Lead
You will remain hands-on while taking responsibility for the day-to-day technical delivery and results of a squad. You will guide engineers, coordinate work, remove obstacles, influence technical direction and work closely with business and functional leaders. This is technical and delivery leadership, not formal HR people management.
Key responsibilities
Technical leadership (through expertise)
- Lead design and implementation for complex software components, services, and platforms.
- Drive technical decision-making for major features and engineering initiatives.
- Influence software architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards within your domain.
- Lead technical design sessions and contribute to architectural discussions with Product Architects.
- Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Participate in interviews to help assess and hire engineering talent.
- Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to stakeholders outside your immediate team.
Software development
- Design and deliver enterprise-scale, secure, maintainable, and scalable software solutions.
- Evaluate design alternatives and recommend approaches balancing value, risk, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for critical production issues.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt, performance bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and operational risk.
Quality, delivery, and collaboration
- Champion engineering best practices across testing, automation, deployment, observability, and security.
- Partner with Quality Engineering to advance quality-by-design and automation.
- Support release planning, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Contribute to roadmap planning, technical estimation, and platform modernization.
Required education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, distributed systems.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentorship within Agile engineering teams.
- Experience designing and operating within cloud-native environments.
Technology stack
This is the current stack for the team you would join. Direct experience is preferred, and strong experience with comparable languages, frameworks, and toolsets will also be considered.
- .NET / C#
- Angular, including an in-house Angular-based UI framework
- Microsoft Azure
- Containerized services orchestrated by Kubernetes
- Microsoft SQL Server and relational databases
- AI-assisted development tools, as provided by Pearson
Desired knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Strong software design and system architecture skills.
- Experience building highly available and scalable enterprise applications.
- Cloud-based DevOps workflows, CI/CD, application security, observability, and performance engineering.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering capability.
- Familiarity with LLMs / ML concepts and practical use of AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering work, preferred.
- Experience supporting accessibility compliance and WCAG standards, preferred.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.
Success measures
- Delivers complex technical solutions that support critical business objectives.
- Builds software with strong reliability, maintainability, scalability, security, and performance.
- Influences technical direction through sound engineering judgment and well-supported recommendations.
- Is sought out by other engineers for guidance on difficult technical problems.
- Improves the capability of the broader engineering team through mentorship.
- Contributes to hiring quality through active participation in the interview process.
- Communicates technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders outside engineering, building trust and alignment.
- Identifies and addresses technical risks before they impact delivery, operations, or customers.
Leadership behaviors
Customer Centricity Anticipates customer needs by designing solutions that improve reliability, usability, performance, and scalability.
Raise the Performance Bar Sets a high standard for engineering quality and continuously explores better tools, frameworks, and approaches.
Exceptional Collaboration for Value Builds strong technical partnerships and helps teams make better decisions through knowledge sharing and constructive challenge.
Our Leaders Inspire Leads through credibility, expertise, and mentorship, creating an environment where engineers grow and solve hard problems together.
Location & Working Pattern
India. Bangalore is the preferred location and Chennai is an option. Exact hybrid attendance requirements will be shared during the recruitment process.
Why Join Pearson?
This is an opportunity to develop engineering talent, strengthen delivery and quality practices, and help teams adopt emerging AI-assisted ways of working across technology that supports assessment experiences at scale.
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