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Principal Software Engineer

Pearson
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 15+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 4 days ago

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical feasibility reviews and share architecture for enterprise-scale AI-native PSG-CP capabilities
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple squads, focusing on high-impact initiatives and critical path work
  • Unblock complex technical challenges that span systems, teams, or domains
  • Lead and contribute to architecture and system design decisions, ensuring scalability, simplicity, and long-term maintainability
  • Drive technical consistency and best practices across teams (design patterns, standards, tooling)
  • Partner with the Engineering Manager and Staff Engineers to support delivery without taking on people management responsibilities
  • Contribute directly to code when needed, especially in high-risk or high-priority areas
  • Mentor and guide senior engineers and technical leads through coaching, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, assess, and co-develop Ai-native innovative capabilities to PSG-CP
  • Required Skills and Competencies:
  • Prior experience building content authoring / management platforms is a must
  • Full-Stack Engineering, Modern Development Tools (Advanced): Build and prototype end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Experience with at least one of the following: Front End like React, Angular; Back End like Java, Spring, Node JS, Python
  • Cloud Computing, API Management, DevOps, Data Security, Information Security (Advanced): Lead technical execution and ensure compliance. Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS/GCP is highly desired
  • Collaboration, Innovation, Cross-Functional Working, Technical Acumen, Problem Solving (Advanced): Influence across teams and partners, shape ideas, and drive differentiated solutions.
  • Comfort with Ambiguity, Builder Mindset (Advanced): Operate effectively in undefined, fast-moving, early-stage environments.
  • Ability to operate as a force multiplier across teams, elevating overall engineering quality and speed
  • Strong architectural thinking with a focus on scalability, simplicity, and business impact
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, and evolving environment
  • Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones
  • Qualifications (Education & Experience):
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications
  • Proven experience operating at a staff or principal level, influencing multiple teams or large systems
  • Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and API architecture using event driven microservices
  • Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems
  • Experience driving technical strategy, standards, and architecture across teams
  • #LM-AM

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications
  • Proven experience operating at a staff or principal level, influencing multiple teams or large systems
  • Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and API architecture using event driven microservices
  • Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems
  • Experience driving technical strategy, standards, and architecture across teams

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