Software Engineering Manager
About the role
Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for building and operating Connexus, a large-scale K-12 student, curriculum, and assessment data platform. The role involves managing engineers working on both legacy .NET and modern cloud-based technologies, ensuring delivery, quality, and adoption of AI-enabled capabilities. Key responsibilities include team management, hiring, onboarding, delivery scheduling, maintaining quality gates, and ensuring agentic and ethical AI practices across all product surfaces. The manager will also guide migration from legacy systems to modern architectures, oversee domain-specific data practices, and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence. Pearson offers a mission-driven environment focused on lifelong learning and equal opportunity employment.
Must have
- 2+ years managing engineers who ship to production, including hiring, performance, and development
- A working engineering background, enough to review a technical decision and to be credible with engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering
- Experience delivering a model-backed or agentic capability to real users, including how it was evaluated before release and monitored afterward
- Practiced at holding a quality gate under delivery pressure, and able to describe a time you held one and a time you should have
- Experience managing across a legacy and a target platform at the same time, where the team cannot stop shipping on either
- Comfortable managing a distributed team across time zones, with the written discipline that requires
- Experience in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments; K-12 and FERPA exposure an advantage
- Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- Angular
- AWS
- DevOps
- .NET
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Generative AI
- IIS
- jQuery
- LLM
- MCP
- MVC
- PostgreSQL
- React
- SQL
- SQL Server
- TypeScript
Highlights
The position is hybrid, requiring some on-site presence. Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities by contacting TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com. The role is within the Virtual Learning organization and is a full-time position.
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