Senior Software Engineer
Full Job Description
About VTS
VTS is Pearson's Professional Assessments test delivery platform, supporting the secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of assessments across our certification and professional testing business. The environment includes modern and legacy systems with a focus on cloud-native delivery, service resilience, API-first integration, and improved developer practices.
Role Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will act as a technical authority within your area. You lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of complex software components that enable key business capabilities. Working with significant independence, you evaluate technical options, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers to build scalable, resilient solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead design for distributed systems, drive major feature initiatives, influence architecture standards, conduct design sessions with Product Architects, and mentor engineering talent through code reviews and pairing.
- Development & Optimization: Design enterprise-scale solutions, evaluate trade-offs between value/risk/performance, perform root-cause analysis on critical production issues, and mitigate technical debt.
- Quality & Delivery: Champion best practices in testing, automation, security, and observability. Partner with Quality Engineering to advance quality-by-design. Support release planning, deployment readiness, and roadmap modernization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstrated leadership on complex distributed systems.
- Expertise operating within cloud-native environments (e.g., Microsoft Azure).
Technology Stack
Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, Microservices Architecture, AI-assisted development tools.
Career Behaviors
We value Customer Centricity, raising the performance bar through continuous improvement, exceptional collaboration for value, and inspiring leadership that grows team capability.
Company
Pearson
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