College Board – Technology Division
100% Remote (US Based)
About the Team
The Digital Practice team is a dedicated team of technologists with a passion for student success. We build products that enable students to prepare for a successful digital testing experience by offering them tailored feedback on the outcome of their practice exams and guide them to additional materials to help them improve.
We leverage serverless infrastructure and modern technologies to be a force-multiplier for the programs we serve. We are proactive, passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and efficiency. We use Agile scrum to manage our work and deliver value regularly following a DevOps model.
We are constantly seeking out, experimenting, and harnessing new technologies to build easy-to-use user interfaces. We work closely with product owners, architects, user experience and students to serve our mission.
About the Opportunity
As a Full Stack Engineer, you are a talented technologist and problem solver. You have a strong interest in understanding and improving products for our students. You will use a variety of technologies to build, operate, and maintain software and automation solutions in an ever-growing cloud environment. You will contribute to all phases of software engineering including requirements definition and analysis, application design, coding, testing, deploying and support.
You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative.
In this role, you will:
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
- Maintain, Operateand Monitor products that the teams builds
- 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 4+ 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, 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.
- You are authorized to work in the US
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 live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks
About Our Benefits and 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 $132,000 to $143,000.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.
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