Staff Software Engineer
About the role
Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as an Engineering Lead across multiple delivery teams, primarily focused on the Connexus K-12 student, curriculum, and assessment data platform. The role acts as the engineering voice for the teams, bridging communication between them and other stakeholders, and is responsible for technical coherence, cross-team coordination, and ensuring quality and compliance. The position involves overseeing both legacy and modern technology stacks, guiding migration efforts, and fostering AI-native engineering practices. Candidates are expected to have deep domain expertise, particularly in data foundations relevant to K-12 education, and to contribute to shared tooling and engineering standards. The role is not primarily coding-focused but requires technical depth and credibility.
Must have
- 7+ years of engineering experience with production ownership, at a level where engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering will take your technical judgment seriously
- Experience working across several teams without formal authority over any of them
- Comfortable being accountable for outcomes you do not personally build
- Practiced at translating between product intent and engineering reality in both directions, including saying no with a reason
- Demonstrated AI-native practice: agents you have built and operated, skills or MCP servers you have authored for others to reuse, and a clear account of how you review AI-generated work
- Practiced in test-driven development, including negative testing that proves a rule denies
- Able to read legacy C#/.NET and T-SQL well enough to reason about a migration, whether or not it is your preferred stack
- 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
- C#
- DevOps
- .NET
- Event-Driven Architecture
- IIS
- jQuery
- MCP
- MVC
- PostgreSQL
- React
- SQL
- SQL Server
- TDD
- TypeScript
Highlights
The position is hybrid, requiring some on-site presence. Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities by contacting TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
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