Engineering Manager - eCommerce 

This is a Hybrid role located at our Tech Hub, Durham, NC

We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

PMC is one of Pearson’s global technology platforms, globally-distributed instances, multi-tenant, driving the digital transformation for eCommerce and web content. PMC currently processes more than 90% of global Pearson eCommerce revenue and serves over 75% of all Pearson web traffic.

We currently run a large eCommerce platform serving the full-stack, but we want to start to move towards the next-generation of eCommerce architectures – headless, API-first, cloud-native and micro-service based. Join a high performing team within a highly specialized technology department which focuses on delivery and transformation!

About the job

The right person will be a high performing engineering manager with experience working on enterprise customer-facing web applications and hands on experience with the next.JS stack. They will be leading a team of engineers in the Raleigh office and working on projects with global teams. They will contribute to Pearson's technical transformation by developing global capability onto the PMC core technical platform using cutting edge technologies. There will also be opportunities to lead projects for PMC in the GenAI space. We are looking for someone with passion for technology and a drive to help us move towards our architectural vision.

This is a unique opportunity for a keen technologist to help us build something that will directly enhance the lives of millions, by supporting the provision of education on a global scale.

As an engineer manager you will:

Key responsibilities

● Line manage and mentor a team of engineers working on customer facing platforms

● Ensure code is of high quality and adheres to non-functional requirements

● Follow and contribute to the project's technical best practices and development standards

● Perform code reviews and ensure commerce extensions are created in a flexible and modular manner

● Collaborate with Technical Lead, Solutions Architects and Enterprise Architects for aspects related to integration with other systems

Skills & Abilities

● Experience of next.JS framework and API-driven development

● Exposure to previous complex customer-facing web application implementations

● Experience of microservice development on a cloud-platform (AWS – desirable)

● GenAI experience in LLM tuning and content generation (desirable)

● Strong experience in mentoring talent

● Excellent communication skills