at The College Board in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Senior Full Stack EngineerCollege Board Technology Division - Item Cloud Green Team
100% Remote
About the Team:
The Item Cloud Green team drives innovation at College Board by developing an internal-facing web application to support the digital transformation of our core products. The team consists of 3 sub-teams, each owning a unique piece of a high-impact and secure internal React applications focused on our internal content creation processes. We own the full stack, from the infrastructure in AWS to the back-end APIs to the front-end code. We leverage serverless infrastructure, in the cloud, utilizing modern technologies and novel techniques to be a force-multiplier for the programs we serve. We are remote, but close-knit. We are strong advocates of work/life balance and flexibility with schedules, when needed. We are proactive, passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and efficiency. We are agile, but we are also exploring accomplishing our work through mob programming. We are creative problem-solvers and idea-generators, and the impacts of that have led to innovations and dramatic improvements in College Board's biggest programs, serving millions of students to help them take ownership of their future.
About the Opportunity:
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you are a talented technologist and problem-solver. You have extensive knowledge and expertise designing, implementing, and testing web-based solutions and will apply this to deliver a high-impact content creation web application that integrates with a newly emerging content management ecosystem. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative. These traits combined with your experience will allow you to handle more challenging stories than other developers, while also reviewing others' code, offering insights and pointers to those with less experience. You may even be handed an entire epic to see through from beginning to end.
In this role, you will:
- Design and implement, in collaboration with team members, data-intensive, highly secure, primarily React-based components.
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our customer's business processes and operations
- Participate in pair programming and mob programming sessions, solving complex problems, and innovating new ideas.
- Refactor ugly code to be simple and readable.
- Participate in conversations and offer opinions on proposed architecture, testing strategies, the developer experience, security, performance, and fault-tolerance.
- Mentor and help junior engineers in their growth.
About you, you have:
- Ideally 5+ years of software development experience in a production environment
- Strong experience with React, Node.js, REST and CRUD
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies, ideally with AWS
- Advanced knowledge of AuthN, AuthZ and/or RBAC
- Practical experience with Unit and Integration testing
Differentiators:
- Experience with TypeScript, and CSS
- Experience with AWS resources including any mix of Route 53, EC2, S3, CloudFront, VPCs, Security Groups, ELB, Lambdas, IAM, CloudWatch and SecretsManager
- Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD and NoSQL
- Familiar with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK), functional programming concepts, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Knowledgeable in DevOps best practices, Developer Experience (DX) topics, and User Experience (UX) concepts
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 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, enabling you to be industry-forward instead of left behind technologically.
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.
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