Senior Engineer

The College Board is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to providing excellence and equity in education. They are seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to lead complex software development, manage ongoing projects, and design AWS cloud solutions to enhance data quality and process automation.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complex software development including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects and closely adhering to deadlines
• Take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation
• Ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members are professional and meet expectations
• Analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions to attain high data quality and process automation
• Design, develop, implement, and deploy AWS cloud solutions, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives

Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience with software development
• Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies and implementation environments especially in the cloud
• Expert level experience in React, NodeJS and scripting in a Cloud based environment
• Demonstrated advanced experience with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS and DynamoDB, AWS CLI
• Possess strong technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services
• Strong design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices including UI
• Working experience on CI/CD using AWS Code pipeline
• Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS
• Fundamentals in computer science foundation principles
• Working knowledge of distributed architectural design patterns
• Knowledge of systems analysis and design (including OOAD and UML), and database design
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and modern software engineering principles and practices
• Experience setting up a DevOps
• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
• 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
• High analytical skills and knack to develop tools for monitoring high frequency data services
• Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude – willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary
• Advanced demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
• Ability to use: KMS, ALB/ELB, Route 53, VPC
• Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible
• Experience with relational databases, and NoSQL databases
• Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques
• Appetite to Learn new things