Senior Software Engineer

Role: Software Engineer

Work Location: Bangalore, India—Hybrid

Drive the future of AI Transformation at Pearson as part of the AI Centre for Enablement team (AI C4E). Inspire innovation. Empower learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) for our Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to join the AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) team.

Why This Role Matters:

The AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) builds reusable common components for Pearson. We take AI capabilities from our business units and our research and development groups and elevate them into shared, reusable services—reducing duplication across Pearson and accelerating delivery to learners. This role joins a new engineering pod in Bangalore building these components in partnership with colleagues in Poland and the US.

You own features end-to-end—from crafting polished, responsive user interfaces to designing the back-end services and APIs that power them. You productionise model work from our Poland and US partners, with accountability for the resilience, scalability, and user experience of systems that underpin Pearson products.

We are looking for an engineer with a proven track record in frontend development who is equally comfortable building robust back-end services. You will bring modern frontend expertise to a team that is standing up new AI-powered experiences, ensuring that the interfaces our learners and internal users interact with are intuitive, performant, and accessible.

As a member of OCTO AI C4E and Pearson, you are expected to embody and role model our leadership dimensions:

Live Our Purpose: You align your values, actions, and goals with Pearson's mission. You connect daily work to our broader purpose and make decisions that reflect a deep understanding of our strategy.

Simplify the Complexity: You navigate ambiguity and distil complexity into clear, actionable plans. You help teams focus and execute in a dynamic environment.

Carry Our Culture: You foster customer centricity, high performance, and strong collaboration. You lead with integrity and contribute to inclusive, high-performing teams.

Deliver Results: You set ambitious goals and execute with quality, precision, and speed. You hold yourself accountable for outcomes and measurable impact for learners and stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and optimise end-to-end features—from responsive, accessible frontend interfaces to the back-end AI services and APIs that power them—with accountability for resilience, scalability, and user experience.



• Build and maintain modern frontend applications using frameworks such as React, Next.js, or Vue, applying best practices in component architecture, state management, performance optimisation, and design-system adoption.



• Develop robust back-end services, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and data integrations that expose AI capabilities to internal and external consumers.



• Drive the technical direction of high-stakes projects and provide authoritative guidance in architecture reviews, partnering with product owners and designers to align solutions with business strategy and user needs.



• Act as a subject-matter mentor—reviewing peers work across the stack, advising on performance tuning, and supporting incident investigations.



• Deliver comprehensive, maintainable documentation alongside technically challenging features, and help avert technical risks before they escalate.

Who You Are:

• Customer-centric: you anticipate end-user needs and shape solutions that improve usability, accessibility, and performance across every layer of the stack.



• A frontend-strong full stack engineer: you have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade user interfaces and are passionate about crafting exceptional user experiences.



• You raise the performance bar by proactively adopting and piloting emerging tools, frameworks, and frontend patterns.



• You champion best practices in code reviews, mentor others, and foster a learning environment by openly sharing insights.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.



• Proven frontend expertise: deep, hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, or Angular), responsive design, component libraries, state management, and frontend testing strategies.



• Strong back-end skills: proficiency in building APIs and services with Python, Node.js, Go, or Java, along with solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.



• Deep technical acumen in software design, API management, cloud computing, and DevOps.



• Working fluency with AI concepts—comfortable with ML code and emerging patterns like AI agents, even if you have not trained models yourself.



• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration across remote, cross-time-zone teams.

What You'll Gain:

• Early-member role in a new Bangalore pod building reusable AI services and experiences for Pearson.



• The opportunity to shape the frontend standards, design-system adoption, and full stack engineering culture of a greenfield team.



• Regular collaboration with senior engineers across Poland and the US.



• Visibility across OCTO and the Chief Data & AI Office.

Why Pearson

At Pearson, we don't just build careers—we accelerate them. This position provides visibility across the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the AI C4E, with a clear path into broader technical and strategic roles.

We believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer competitive benefits designed to support the diverse needs of our people and their families. Explore our Benefits.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Benefits and flexible working options are available per Pearson India policy.

Apply today and imagine the impact you can make.

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Who we are:

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.

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Job: Engineering

Job Family: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: OCTO

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 24571