Fast Facts

The College Board is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join their Delivery organization, focusing on building and maintaining digital portfolio platforms for AP classes in a fully remote position.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include designing and deploying modern web applications and APIs on AWS, maintaining high-traffic production environments, and collaborating within an agile team to improve application functionality and performance.

Skills: Required skills include strong experience with React, Node.js, Typescript, and AWS services such as Lambda and DynamoDB, along with a solid understanding of DevOps practices and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications: A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years in software development, with at least 3-5 years in full stack development, are preferred qualifications.

Location: Remote - Virginia, United States of America

Compensation: $137000 - $148000 / Annually

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College Board–Technology 

Location:Fully Remote

Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team

The team sits within the Delivery organization and oversees the digital portfolio platform used across AP classes. They build andmaintainthe systems that allow students tosubmitcoursework and teachers to review and score it, with this work contributing directly to students’ final AP scores. Their focus is on creating a seamless, dependable experience for both students and educators through secure, high-quality digital submission workflows. As a full-stack engineering group, they support both front-end and back-end development to deliver scalable, user-centered tools.

About the Opportunity 

We arelookingfor aFull Stack Developerwith strongReact andnode.js development experience in designing, implementing, and deployingmodern web applications andbackend APIs/microservices as well asmaintainingand supporting such services in high-traffic production environments in the AWS cloud.This includes hands on contributions for the entire lifecycle of features, includingrequirements analysis,engineering design, development, and deployment as well as providing support to engineering leaders to make sure interfaces, integrations, and all necessary lines of demarcation are clear, meaningful, andaccurate.

Youwill report to the Engineering Director and work within an agile application team that develops andmaintainshighly visible and criticalwebapplications.Youwillmaintainawareness and knowledge of the emerging trends in technology, and its usage within the industry, and will apply this learning in the establishment of new and innovative technology strategies to supportCollegeBoard’s business needs.Youwill work with Product owners and lead engineers to helparchitectthe solutions.Youwill also work with the teams toestablishrelated practices, standards, and guidelines and provide oversight andadoptionsupport to solution delivery teams.

• Analyze, design, develop,testand deployfull stack AWS Cloud solutionsthat includemodern web applications,highly scalable REST APIs, microservices, data pipelines and other event driven applications using Node.JS and serverless technologies.Create technical documentation such as flow diagrams, designspecsetc.
• Continuously deliver new software features by developing infrastructure-as-code (CDK) and scripting of automated CI/CD pipelines. 
• Implement observability solutions that allow our team to log, monitor, and analyze system health and user activity patterns. 
• Identifyopportunities for improving application functionality and performance,seek continuous feedback from customers,identifyand mitigate technical risks. 
• Utilize application development tools and methodologies across multiple platforms.
• Collaborate with the team to deliver code that uses best practices and design patterns, that includes comprehensive unit testing, and that has gone through a sound code-review process. 

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, SoftwareEngineeringor equivalent isrequired
• Minimum5years of experience in professional software development
• Minimum 3-5 years of strongFull stackdevelopment experience inReact, Typescriptand Node.js 
• Minimum of 1-2 years of hands-on experience developing solutions with AWS services, including Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch and more
• Proactive witha strong senseof ownership and responsibility
• Capable of analyzing, planning, designing, and owning complex or vaguely defined issues with little or no supervision
• Collaborative attitude that incorporates various perspectives
• Strong communicationskills with technical and non-technical peers
• Strong problem solvingand organizational skills
• Experience in DevOps and Agile methodologies

Additionally, it is nice to have qualifications

• Experience with Java
• Hands-on experience with AWS CDK and/or CloudFormation
• Automation using Playwright

About Our Process 

• Application review will beginimmediatelyand will continue until the position is filled  
• While the hiring process may vary, it generallyincludes: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.  

About Our Benefits and Compensation

CollegeBoard 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 compensatingemployees 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 $137,000to $148,000.CollegeBoard differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow theportionof this range in which you can expect a salary. 

Your salary will be carefullydeterminedbased on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles.CollegeBoard strives to provide our best offer up front based onthis 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, tuitionassistance, 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.