Lead Full Stack Engineer
College Board3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$168k - $181k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable AWS cloud solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, and serverless technologies.
- Develop backend APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and event-driven applications supporting assessment scoring.
- Lead requirements development, data mapping, user-story creation, production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and lasting issue resolution.
- Monitor production deployments and occasionally troubleshoot outside normal business hours to support scoring accuracy and timeliness.
- Guide functional testing by validating data accuracy, system behavior, and process integrity.
- Set and uphold engineering standards for design patterns, unit testing, code review, and development practices.
- Serve as technical lead by mentoring and coaching junior engineers, providing technical direction, and reviewing code, designs, and approaches.
- Create design specifications, flow diagrams, reference implementations, code templates, runbooks, and well-defined user stories.
- Break complex features into scoped tasks and review junior engineers’ work for quality and consistency.
- Partner with managers, product teams, psychometrics stakeholders, and business teams on roadmap, estimation, and delivery planning.
- Guide responsible use of AI-assisted development tools, including validating generated output and protecting confidential data.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience in a production environment, including leading technical design and delivery.
- Strong backend development experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and TypeScript, including an appreciation for functional programming concepts.
- At least 3–4 years of hands-on experience developing with AWS services such as Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and CloudWatch.
- Ideally, broader experience with API Gateway, IAM, CloudFront, VPCs, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience delivering with CI/CD, NoSQL data stores, and infrastructure as code; AWS CDK experience is a plus.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and influence engineers and partners without formal authority.
- Ability to analyze, plan, design, and own vaguely defined issues with minimal supervision.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, organizational, and ownership skills.
- Understanding of Agile methodology and DevOps best practices, with willingness to work in a DevOps environment.
- Familiarity with Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development, and Documentation as Code.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and the judgment to evaluate their output and coach junior engineers.
- Experience with assessment or education technology systems, including scoring or calibration, is an advantage.
- 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.
Benefits
- Fully remote position; candidates near College Board offices may alternatively work hybrid on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Full-time employment with a self-sustaining nonprofit organization.
- Comprehensive benefits package and compensation approach designed around qualifications, experience, impact, and market data.
- Location-based salary adjustments and transparent compensation and benefits discussions during the hiring process.
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About College Board
College Board is a nonprofit education organization that builds and administers programs such as the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, Advanced Placement, CLEP, and BigFuture planning tools for students, schools, and colleges. It generates revenue primarily through exam and program fees and services to educational institutions. Founded in 1900 and headquartered in New York, it works with U.S. secondary schools and higher-ed admissions to deliver assessments and course frameworks.