College Board – Technology Division
100% Remote (US Based)
About the Team
The Digital Assessment team is committed to making higher education accessible to every student through innovative technology, building cutting edge applications to deliver College Board’s suite of assessments. We are a team of 20, including 15 engineers building web and native platforms, self-organized into three main areas, core web application, native technology, and infrastructure engineering. We are constantly seeking out, experimenting, and harnessing new technologies to build easy-to-use user interfaces, with a singular mission to deliver secure and comprehensive assessments to students across the planet. We regularly collaborate, keeping it light, while pitching and sharing our ideas to help define the future of our applications. We work closely with product owners, architects, user experience, testing centers, students, and external partners to serve our mission.
About the Opportunity
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Digital Assessment team, you are a collaborator, and innovator. You have a strong interest in understanding and improving products for our students. You relish the opportunity to bring your ideas and your love of coding to support, enhance and define the future of fully cloud-based web and native applications used by millions of students around the globe. You are not shy about taking on new work you may not have done before while contributing to all phases of software engineering including requirements definition and analysis, application design, coding, testing, deploying, and support. You are eager to lead by example through peer collaboration, coaching and mentoring.
Design & Implementation (75%)
- Design and implement high-quality software using the latest technologies with a focus on building component-based, cost-effective, scalable, and secure.
- Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services
- Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps
Team Operations & Success (25%)
- Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
- Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
- Assist in the identification and resolution of production issues
- Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures
About you, you have:
- Ideally 6+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with JavaScript/Typescript, React, Node.js
- Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and experience working with AWS resources such as ApiGateway, Cloudfront, S3, SNS/SQS, Lambda, AWS WAF/WebACL, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, DynamoDB.
- Experience provisioning and managing Cloud infrastructure as code using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and/or AWS CloudFormation.
- Strong experience with version control using Git, continuous integration, and test automation.
- Experience with technical support using tool such as Pager Duty to identify and resolve issues.
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Independent, proactive, and able to deliver high-quality code.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and discover innovative and efficient solutions.
- Effective communicator, a believer in good comments and documentation.
About Our Process
- Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
- While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as a live coding session, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
About Our Benefits & Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $144,000 to $157,000.
College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary. Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
- A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
- Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
- A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
- You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
About Our Culture
- We are motivated to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students a year
- We prioritize building a diverse and inclusive team where every employee can thrive, and every voice is heard
- We value learning and growth; we offer formal and informal ways to lead through your superpowers, sharpen your strengths, and meet your development goals
- Our high-performing engineers work with the latest technologies, so you will be constantly learning and sharpening your skills
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What We Do
College Board is a not-for-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, BigFuture, and more. For more information, go to collegeboard.org
