College Board

College Board

Lead Mobile Engineer, Deliver

Remote - USA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$168k-$183kDetected 8 days ago
TypeScriptSwiftKotlinReactiOSAndroidAWSGCPAzureCI/CDDevOpsA/B TestingCybersecurityTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • This role requires deep expertise in native mobile development (Swift for iOS and Kotlin/Android SDK), along with experience integrating with OS-level and device capabilities (e.g., permissions, networking, device controls).
  • Today, this includes supporting flagship programs such as the SAT and AP exams, while advancing the technology that enables secure, reliable, and scalable test delivery across a wide range of devices and environments.
  • The team focuses on delivering high-integrity proctoring and assessment experiences, ensuring performance, security, and consistency for students and educators at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Mission Control - a large-scale, AWS-based backend that supports authentication, test delivery, telemetry, resilience, and security
  • Test & Results Packaging - systems that ingest, digitize, secure, package, and deliver test content to students through the Bluebook client
  • Own and drive the architecture of native mobile applications (iOS and Android), defining modular boundaries, component strategies, and platform patterns
  • Design and deliver scalable, secure solutions leveraging native mobile capabilities and cloud-native architectures on popular platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure
  • Lead the integration of OS-level and device capabilities (e.g., permissions, networking, device controls) to enable secure, consistent behavior across environments
  • Drive prototyping and technical validation for new capabilities, ensuring solutions scale beyond initial implementation
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting the bar for native mobile development, code quality, and system design
  • Lead architectural discussions and make high-impact technical decisions, balancing performance, security, and scalability
  • Drive alignment across product, security, and platform teams, ensuring cohesive mobile-to-cloud integration
  • At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.

Requirements

  • All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Nice to have

  • Strong expertise in Swift (iOS) and Kotlin/Android SDK, with deep understanding of mobile platform internals
  • Experience designing applications that integrate with OS-level and device capabilities (e.g., permissions, networking, device controls)
  • Experience working across desktop ecosystems and understanding cross-environment constraints
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release processes for mobile applications
  • Experience with infrastructure as code
  • Strong understanding of application security, including authentication, secure communication, and device-level considerations
  • Experience implementing observability and monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts) for production systems
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills

Skills

  • A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
  • Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal

Compensation

  • We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

Benefits

  • You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
  • The College Board, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to provid ing ex cellence and equity in education, delivers digital assessment experiences at scale.

Company info

  • The Deliver team is responsible for building and operating the core products that deliver high-stakes digital assessments to millions of students each year.
  • Our responsibilities span two primary domains:
  • We own the end-to-end student testing experience, including:
  • Bluebook - the student-facing desktop application used to take digital exams
  • Together, these systems must operate with extreme reliability, security, and performance at national scale. 
  • We also build the tools educators rely on during live testing, a new product consisting of desktop and mobile experiences that allow proctors to:
  • Monitor student progress in real time
  • Detect and investigate anomalies
  • Troubleshoot student issues on test day
  • This work directly impacts test integrity, educator confidence, and student outcomes.

This listing is sourced directly from College Board's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.