
Senior Software Engineering Manager – AI
Pearson VUE
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hoboken • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead, manage, and scale a distributed engineering team of 10–20 engineers, including senior engineers and team leads.
- Build a strong leadership bench by mentoring tech leads and emerging managers.
- Drive performance management, including goal setting, regular feedback, and career development plans.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
- Manage hiring, onboarding, and team capacity planning to support business growth.
- Ensure high levels of team engagement, retention, and productivity across geographies.
- Own end-to-end delivery for the Insights & Recommendations domain across multiple Scrum teams.
- Establish predictable execution rhythms, ensuring on-time, high-quality releases.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to translate strategy into clear engineering roadmaps.
- Identify risks early and proactively remove organizational, technical, or process bottlenecks.
- Drive operational excellence, including metrics, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide architectural oversight for data-driven applications, analytics pipelines, and web platforms.
- Guide teams on best practices in SQL, data systems, ReactJS, and Java-based services.
- Ensure scalable system design, performance optimization, and reliability.
- Lead technical design reviews and promote sound engineering decisions across teams.
- Champion Agile best practices across multiple teams (planning, backlog management, retrospectives).
- Align engineering efforts with business outcomes and customer impact.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders across time zones with strong communication discipline.
- Drive transparency through clear reporting, stakeholder updates, and data-driven decision-making.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing teams of 10+ engineers.
- 12+ years of overall experience in software engineering.
- Proven experience scaling and leading distributed engineering teams across geographies.
- Strong technical background in:
- - SQL & data analytics systems
- - ReactJS
- - Java-based backend systems
- Demonstrated success in delivering data-driven platforms or analytics products.
- Strong experience with Agile/Scrum at scale (multiple teams).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Benefits
- This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
- Information on benefits offered is here
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SQLdata analytics systemsReactJSJava-based backend systemsAgileScrumperformance optimizationscalable system designdata-driven platformsanalytics products
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringperformance managementgoal settingfeedbackcareer developmentteam engagementcommunicationstakeholder managementorganizational leadership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering