Fast Facts
The College Board is seeking a Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer to drive the development of a nationwide platform aimed at helping students engage with real-world business challenges and develop essential career skills.
Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include designing and implementing high-quality software, leading Agile ceremonies, resolving production issues, and maintaining engineering standards to support team success.
Skills: Candidates should have extensive experience in software development with proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS Serverless technologies, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 10+ years of experience in software development and a proven ability to mentor team members and implement systems improvements.
Location: This is a fully remote role, but candidates who live near College Board offices have the option for hybrid work (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Compensation: $181000 - $196000 / Annually
College Board – Technology Division
Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The College Board is launching a new exploratory effort to design and scale innovative ways for students to build durable skills — the collaboration, problem-solving, and communication abilities that employers value and that students carry with them for life.
As the Technical Lead on this team, you will help shape and build a potential work-based learning program that connects classrooms to the real world. In this program, we aim for students to: Take on real business challenges from real employers, collaborate in small teams to analyze problems and propose solutions and gain firsthand experience working with professionals, building the social capital and confidence that open doors to future opportunities
Our team is in an exciting build phase — shaping the technology, people, and processes that will bring this program to life. We’re assembling a cross-functional group of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers who thrive on solving meaningful problems. Together, we’re building tools that:
- Help teachers guide students through real-world, employer-driven projects
- Enable students to practice and strengthen durable, transferable skills while building professional connections
- Make it easier for employers to engage with future talent and invest in their communities
This work sits at the intersection of education and the workforce — translating our mission into experiences that prepare every student to succeed in whatever path they choose. You’ll be part of a team creating something new: a program that brings the world of work into schools and helps students develop the skills that last a lifetime.
About the Opportunity
In this role, you’ll lead the charge in building a national-scale platform that empowers students to engage with real employer challenges and develop career-defining skills. Working alongside a Product Manager and Product Designer, you’ll architect and build cutting-edge software that supports educators, engages business partners, and scales to tens of thousands of students. You’ll shape technical strategy, define high-quality engineering practices, and steer how our technology evolves. You’ll also anchor agile operations, lead peer reviews, resolve production issues, and ensure our system is robust, secure, and efficient. If you’re excited by building foundational systems that will impact learners and partners across the country, this is a high-stakes opportunity to drive real change.
In this role, you will:
Design & Implementation (50%)
- Design and implement high-quality software using the latest technologies with a focus on building component-based, cost-effective, scalable, and secure solutions using design patterns to improve collaboration with other microservices/apps and promoting code reuse
- Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services
- Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
- Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps.
Team Operations & Success (25%)
- Participate in, or lead Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables.
- Participate and lead peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
- Assist in the resolution of production issues
- Adhere to development standards and security policies and procedures
- Adopt the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based on the team’s DevOps model
- Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team in a poly-skilled development environment
Software Solutioning & Design (25%)
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the customer’s business processes and operations
- Work closely with Product Management and Design to evaluate feature requests, provide level-of-effort estimates and contribute to sprint planning
- Conduct and participates in peer code and design reviews
- Participate in design research in close collaboration with Product Management and Design; including user interviews, observation, and development of prototypes.
About you, you have:
- 10+ years of production level software development experience managing the entire lifecycle of features, including design, development, documentation, and deployment
- Proficiency in reviewing and improving code structure and architecture for testability, maintainability, and scalability, with hands-on experience in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS Serverless technologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills, working collaboratively with team members to identify and resolve issues, and partnering with Product Owners to prioritize backlog.
- Proven ability to pitch new ideas and implement improved systems and processes, delivering excellent results.
- Effective communicator and team lead, able to provide actionable feedback, mentor team members, and participate in interviews to evaluate engineering talent.
- Ability to travel 3-5 times a year to our NYC or Reston, VA office.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
All roles at College Board require:
- 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.
About Our Process
- Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
- While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
What We Offer
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. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation
- The hiring range for this role is $181,000 – $196,000
- Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.
- We aim to make our best offer upfront rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
- We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.
- You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out our careers page for more.
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