Software Engineering Manager

Pearson Virtual Schools serves K-12 students and their teachers on Connexus, a large-scale student, curriculum, and assessment data platform. You will manage engineers building and operating that platform and the products on top of it.

We are modernizing a platform that today runs primarily on legacy .NET Frameworks: IIS-based ASP.NET WebForms and MVC, an AngularJS and jQuery front end, and SQL Server. The future is design-system-based React and TypeScript single-page applications calling .NET REST services that operate in containerized modern .NET, and integrate with an API-first, event-driven model on AWS with externalized authorization. Your teams will work on both sides of this technology, the legacy and the new.

The platform is becoming agentic across every exposed product area, not only in the teams whose names say AI. That changes what an engineering manager is accountable for. Wherever your team's surface reaches a student, a family, a teacher, or school staff, you own the guardrails, the human-in-the-loop fallback, the disclosure, and the evidence that the behavior was evaluated before release. That obligation does not vary by team.

You are expected to be AI-native in how you manage. That means you can read the work of engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering, you know what an evaluation set is worth and what it is not, and you hold quality as a gate rather than a phase. A good deal of the code your team is accountable for will not be typed by hand.

Key Responsibilities

Team Delivery and Operating Rhythm

• Allocate daily work, provide immediate support, and keep the delivery schedule reliable

• Give feedback in the moment, and escalate an unresolved issue early rather than absorbing it

• Own onboarding and ramp for new team members, and shorten it deliberately