College Board
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Remote - USA · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$153k-$166kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentDynamoDBAWSCI/CDDevOpsAgileSystems EngineeringPlaywrightTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- We are strong advocates of work/life balance and flexibility with schedules when needed.
- We often accomplish our work through paired or mob programming.
- We are proactive, passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain user-facing features and back-end services using React, TypeScript, and AWS services, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS CDK
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, provide technical guidance to junior developers, and drive the adoption of best practices and new technologies
- Optimize application performance, implement automated testing using Playwright, and ensure technical feasibility and code quality through reviews
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our customer's business processes and operations
- Support team-centered, Agile software development
- The Create team is committed to building and driving innovation for internal-facing web applications that support College Board's core products.
- We own the full stack, from the infrastructure in AWS to the front-end and back-end code deployed there.
- At College Board, we offer more than just 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.
- The ability to travel 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
- These traits along with your ability to learn quickly enable you to work harmoniously as you apply innovative, cloud-based solutions within College Board's Technology group.
Nice to have
- At least 3 years of recent, strong, hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js and AWS
- Experience working within the AWS cloud ecosystem, including serverless architecture and resources such as Lambda, Gateway API, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and DynamoDB
- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science, systems engineering, information systems or similar
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.
- solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
Company info
- Our team consists of 2 small squads, each of which owns a unique, data-intensive, high-impact, single-page web application that represents our internal content creation processes.
- We build everything serverless, in the cloud, leveraging current technologies and novel techniques to be a force-multiplier for the programs we serve.
- We are remote, but close-knit.
- We use Agile scrum to manage our work and deliver value regularly following a DevOps model.
- The impact of our efforts as creative problem-solvers and idea-generators leads to innovations and dramatic improvements in College Board's biggest program applications, serving millions of students to help them take ownership of their future.
- About the Opportunity
- As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on our Create team, you are a poly skilled technologist and problem-solver.
- You possess extensive knowledge and expertise designing, implementing, and testing performant and fault-tolerant serverless and container-based apps executing in the cloud.
- You are communicative, approachable, self-driven and energized by collaboration with teammates and a desire to stay abreast of new technologies.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
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