Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. College Board is a nonprofit organization focused on expanding educational opportunities, and they are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer for their Create team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining user-facing features and back-end services, while also providing technical guidance and optimizing application performance.
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
- Solve complex problems using divergent thinking resulting in innovative solutions
- Follow DevOps best practices including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our customer’s business processes and operations
- Support team-centered, Agile software development
Skills
- 7+ years' experience in full stack development, building, testing, and managing web-based applications
- 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
- A passion for learning, driving change, and proposing solutions to complex problems
- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science, systems engineering, information systems or similar
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively
- Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
- A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input
- A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking
- A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success
- The ability to travel 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
Benefits
- A meaningful career
- A supportive team
- A comprehensive package designed to help you thrive
- Fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market
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