Description
College Board – Technology Division
Remote (working core EST hours)
About The Group
The Tech Strategy Group is an innovative team at the College Board consisting of 8-10 engineers focused on delivering the best tools, platforms, and services to our stakeholders. We are the heart of all our applications supporting both internal and external initiatives. This includes in-house software to serve other teams and external product releases like the authentication for our new Digital SAT platform. We have quickly transformed into an Agile organization, embracing DevOps and cloud-native systems. We are focused on improving the speed and reliability of our service delivery in support of our mission; to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students per year.
About The Opportunity
As a Lead Engineer, you will build relationships with stakeholders, including customers, product managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners to deliver new and enhanced features to a wide range of products and services. To be successful in this role, you will contribute to defining the strategic direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success. There are several teams working in this space allowing each engineer the opportunity to work on a variety of different products and platforms.
What You’ll Do
We are a mission-focused, not-for-profit membership organization promoting innovation, equity, and excellence for all students. Our members include more than 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions. We have 1,600 employees in 13 offices across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.
We are advocates for children and parents, we empower teachers and educators, and we're a strong presence in thousands of schools and communities across the country through our programs and services—the SAT®, Advanced Placement® (AP®), and Pre-AP® are just a few. Our work falls broadly into four categories: College Readiness, College Connection & Success, Student Opportunities, and Advocacy.
Benefits
We offer our employees an outstanding benefits package that includes four weeks of paid time off, a generous retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and ongoing professional development and training.
Mission
Clearing a path for all students to own their future.
EEOC statement
College Board is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Remote (working core EST hours)
About The Group
The Tech Strategy Group is an innovative team at the College Board consisting of 8-10 engineers focused on delivering the best tools, platforms, and services to our stakeholders. We are the heart of all our applications supporting both internal and external initiatives. This includes in-house software to serve other teams and external product releases like the authentication for our new Digital SAT platform. We have quickly transformed into an Agile organization, embracing DevOps and cloud-native systems. We are focused on improving the speed and reliability of our service delivery in support of our mission; to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students per year.
About The Opportunity
As a Lead Engineer, you will build relationships with stakeholders, including customers, product managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners to deliver new and enhanced features to a wide range of products and services. To be successful in this role, you will contribute to defining the strategic direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success. There are several teams working in this space allowing each engineer the opportunity to work on a variety of different products and platforms.
What You’ll Do
- Using the latest AWS Cloud technologies, you will design and implement high-quality solutions in support of both internal and external facing customers.
- You will work with product owners, architects, and various stakeholders to design these solutions to the highest engineering standards.
- You will lead, guide, and mentor team members to successfully implement these solutions.
- You will build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Build strong work management and coordination efforts across multiple teams
- Contribute as a collaborative member of a fast-paced, highly skilled engineering team.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of professional software development and design experience, with at least 3 years of Cloud development experience using Node.js.
- Experience building event-driven Cloud based serverless applications (AWS preferred).
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals i.e., design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and database design.
- Experience with version control using Git, building automation using Webpack, continuous integration using AWS Code Pipeline (or similar), and some test automation familiarity.
- Strong Linux based operating system experience.
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills - working cross-functionally with other engineers and stakeholders to deliver cutting edge solutions.
- Our high-performing engineers work with the latest technologies, so you will be constantly learning and sharpening your skills
- We have a lot of fun bringing wild ideas to life at Hack Day
- 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
- We know that our impact is strongest together. Our College Board Cares program offers all staff up to $1,000 annual match against partner non-profit organizations
- We offer a transparent approach to promotions and merit raises, annual performance-based bonuses, and how to grow your career here over time
We are a mission-focused, not-for-profit membership organization promoting innovation, equity, and excellence for all students. Our members include more than 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions. We have 1,600 employees in 13 offices across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.
We are advocates for children and parents, we empower teachers and educators, and we're a strong presence in thousands of schools and communities across the country through our programs and services—the SAT®, Advanced Placement® (AP®), and Pre-AP® are just a few. Our work falls broadly into four categories: College Readiness, College Connection & Success, Student Opportunities, and Advocacy.
Benefits
We offer our employees an outstanding benefits package that includes four weeks of paid time off, a generous retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and ongoing professional development and training.
Mission
Clearing a path for all students to own their future.
EEOC statement
College Board is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Job Summary
| Job ID | : | 1338 |
| Company | : | The College Board |
| Location | : | Worldwide |
| Job Type | : | Full-time |
| Primary Tag | : | Software Development |
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