Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE)

Role Overview

Location and Work Arrangement

• The role is based in Bengaluru or Chennai.
• The work arrangement is hybrid, with three days in the office per week.

About Pearson

Customer-Centric Solution Delivery

• Work with customers, business stakeholders, and product teams to understand requirements and desired outcomes.
• Analyze customer journeys, business workflows, and user pain points.
• Translate business needs into practical technical solutions and keep customer value central to delivery.
• Gather feedback and continuously improve delivered solutions.

Discovery and Proof of Concepts

• Lead technical discovery sessions and solution design workshops.
• Develop proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and minimum viable solutions to validate assumptions and reduce implementation risk.
• Evaluate technology options, recommend approaches, present trade-offs, and support implementation planning.

Software and Cloud Engineering

• Design, develop, test, and deploy production-grade software solutions.
• Build APIs, integrations, microservices, automations, and cloud-native applications.
• Design and support AWS and/or Azure solutions using Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud automation, and deployment pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and operational controls for scalable and resilient cloud solutions.

Secure and AI-Assisted Engineering

• Apply secure-by-design principles, secure coding practices, security controls, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and security reviews.
• Apply DevSecOps practices, including automated security validation and compliance checks.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation where appropriate.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, and engineering discussions.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, product teams, and cloud engineers.

Required Qualifications

• Strong customer-centric mindset and experience engaging customers, business stakeholders, and product teams.
• Ability to balance customer experience, business priorities, technical constraints, security requirements, and operational considerations.
• Strong software development experience using Python, Java, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
• Experience building APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and modern software engineering principles.
• Experience with cloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud automation, and deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of secure coding, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, security reviews, and DevSecOps practices.