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Principal Software Engineer
Pearson
CAN
Full-time
Lead · 15+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, 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
- Conduct deep code reviews and set a high bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability
- Identify and prevent overengineering, promoting pragmatic and efficient solutions
- Drive technical consistency and best practices across teams (design patterns, standards, tooling)
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Tech Leads 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
- Improve overall engineering effectiveness, including development workflows, system reliability, and scalability
Qualifications
- 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
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with broader experience in several languages and programming paradigms
- Strong experience with React and modern front-end architectures e Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and API architecture
- Experience working on complex, production-grade, high- scale systems
- Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems
- Experience driving technical strategy, standards, and architecture across teams
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing strategies, and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with AWS, Docker, Linux, and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency with SQL and relational database design
- 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
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, especially for complex and ambiguous challenges
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Pragmatic mindset focused on delivering value, not overengineering
- Self-starter who thrives in a remote, fast-paced, and evolving environment
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Compensation
- Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location. The full-time salary range for this role is $175,000 - 210,000 CAD. This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here. Applications will be accepted through November 8th, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Skills
- 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
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, especially for complex and ambiguous challenges
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Pragmatic mindset focused on delivering value, not overengineering
- Self-starter who thrives in a remote, fast-paced, and evolving environment
- Compensation
- Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location. The full-time salary range for this role is $175,000 - 210,000 CAD. This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here. Applications will be accepted through November 8th, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
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