Principal Software Engineer
Bengaluru, KA, India12h ago
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Key details
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, India
- Work style
- Hybrid
- Level
- Lead / Staff+
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 15–18 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- Full stack
- Posted
- 12h ago
Skills
About the role
About PSG-CP
Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company, and PSG-CP (Pearson Software Group - Content Platform) is the organization powering how that learning gets created, enriched, delivered, and measured. PSG-CP's focus is on content. We handle authoring, semantic enrichment, transformation, delivery, assessment, and analytics, serving every Pearson line of business and millions of learners worldwide. We are reshaping the platform around AI in a serious way, and this Principal Engineer role is pivotal in shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of technology and architecture.
This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role focused on improving engineering effectiveness, accelerating delivery, and ensuring technical excellence across the organization. You will not be embedded within a single team; instead, you will work across teams on PSG-CP initiatives, complex technical challenges, and architectural decisions.
You will partner closely with Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, Product, and DevOps to assess technical feasibility, and drive architecture decisions for future high-impact, AI-native PSG-CP capabilities.
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