Collegeboard

Collegeboard

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Remote - USA · Senior · Full-time

Work authorization required$153k-$166kDetected 7 hours 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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