Description
Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Modernization
English Language Learning (ELL) – Assessments Technology
Department: English Language Learning (ELL)
Job family: Software Engineering
Contract: Full‑time (FTE)
Location: Hybrid / Full Remote (Spain or Poland)
ABOUT PEARSON AND ELL
Pearson is the world's leading learning company, committed to helping people realise the life they imagine through learning. Within Pearson, the English Language Learning (ELL) organisation builds platforms and products that support language learning and language proficiency assessment at general scale. This role sits within ELL Technology, in teams responsible for secure, reliable, and scalable assessment systems, where engineering quality, operational stability, and long-term sustainability are critical.

ROLE SUMMARY
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help modernize and strengthen core assessment technology within ELL. This role is designed for an engineer who is comfortable working across legacy and modern systems, raising engineering maturity,



and enabling multiple teams through shared platform improvements. This is not a single-team, feature-only role. You will have a home squad, while also contributing to cross-team enablement, modernization initiatives, and engineering best practices that scale across ELL.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
1. Modernization of critical backend services
- Design, implement, and evolve Java / Spring-based services
- Reduce long-term technical risk by improving maintainability, modularity, and clarity of ownership
- Apply incremental modernization techniques that allow teams to continue delivering while architecture evolves

2. Platform and cross-team enablement
- Contribute to shared platform capabilities used by multiple ELL squads (e.g. release safety patterns, feature-flagging approaches, service integration standards)
- Act as a technical partner for teams adopting new responsibilities or inheriting complex systems
- Help make platform i

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