Lead Full Stack Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $168k - $181k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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The College Board

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1900

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. It connects students to college success and opportunity by supporting them in building essential skills for higher education and removing barriers to access. The College Board operates with a focus on respect, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, with a diverse and dedicated team of professionals. Based in several locations across the United States, they strive to modernize operations and increase their digital footprint, supporting students and families nationwide.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend AWS cloud solutions • Build highly scalable REST APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and event-driven applications using Node.js, TypeScript, and serverless technologies • Translate data insights into actionable recommendations and technical decisions with business and technical teams • Lead development and review of requirements, data mappings, user stories, and other artifacts • Resolve production issues through troubleshooting and root cause analysis • Monitor production deployments and troubleshoot outside normal business hours when needed • Guide functional testing by validating data accuracy, system behavior, and process integrity • Set and uphold engineering standards, best practices, design patterns, unit testing, and code review processes • Serve as technical lead, mentoring and coaching junior engineers and providing technical direction • Influence technical direction and adoption of engineering practices across the team and with partners • Create design specifications, flow diagrams, reference implementations, code templates, runbooks, and user stories • Break down complex features into scoped tasks and review junior engineers' work • Partner with the manager, product, and Psychometrics stakeholders on roadmap, estimation, and delivery planning • Use and guide responsible use of AI-assisted development tools for design, coding, testing, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience in a production environment, including experience leading technical design and delivery • 3–4 years of hands-on experience developing solutions with AWS services, including Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and CloudWatch • Strong backend development experience in JavaScript/Node.js and TypeScript • Experience with CI/CD and NoSQL data stores • Experience with infrastructure-as-code; AWS CDK is a plus • Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers and set technical direction • Ability to influence and align engineers and partners without formal authority • Ability to analyze, plan, design, and own vaguely defined issues with minimal supervision • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Understanding of Agile methodology and DevOps best practices • Familiarity with Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development, and Documentation as Code • Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating AI-generated output • Experience with assessment or education technology systems is a strong advantage • Strong organizational skills and interest in Developer Experience and User Experience concepts • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent • Authorization to work in the United States for any employer • Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills • Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies • Learner's mindset and commitment to growth • Collaborative and empathetic approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work option • Hybrid work option for candidates near College Board offices (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) • Fair and competitive compensation • Supportive team • Comprehensive benefits package • Transparent conversations about compensation and benefits • Opportunities to use emerging technologies and AI-driven solutions • Mentoring and professional growth through feedback and continuous learning