Senior Software Engineer

Job Title - Senior Software Engineer - VTS

About Pearson

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About VTS

VTS is Pearson’s Professional Assessments test delivery platform, supporting the secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of assessments across Pearson’s certification and professional testing business. The platform environment includes modern and legacy systems, with ongoing focus on platform modernization, service resilience, API-first integration, cloud-native delivery, and improved developer and operational practices.

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.