College Board - Technology Division – Digital Assessment Platform
This is a fully remote role (working in EST)
This is a full-time, permanent, salaried position
About the Team
The Digital Assessment team is committed to making higher education accessible to every student through innovative technology, building cutting edge applications to deliver College Board’s suite of assessments. We are a team of 20, including 15 engineers building web and native platforms, self-organized into three main areas, core web application, native technology, and infrastructure engineering. We are constantly seeking out, experimenting, and harnessing new technologies to build easy-to-use user interfaces, with a singular mission to deliver secure and comprehensive assessments to students across the planet. We regularly collaborate, keeping it light, while pitching and sharing our ideas to help define the future of our applications. We work closely with product owners, architects, user experience, testing centers, students, and external partners to serve our mission.
About the Opportunity
As a Lead Engineer on the Digital Assessment team, you will be instrumental in enhancing and maintaining our Bluebook Assessment platform, ensuring its readiness for key digital exam administrations. This role involves delivering critical features, maintaining high standards of security and compliance, and achieving exceptional success rates for exam submissions. Additionally, the Lead Engineer will support the expansion of digital AP subjects and manage operational costs effectively. Their efforts will directly contribute to the smooth and secure delivery of exams, impacting hundreds of thousands of students globally.
In this role, you will:
Design & Implementation (75%)
- Design and implement high-quality software using the latest technologies
- Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services
- Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
- Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps
- Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team in a poly-skilled development environment
Team Operations & Success (25%)
- Lead and Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
- Lead peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
- Give timely feedback to junior engineers to maintain a high quality of engagement.
- Assist in the identification and resolution of production issues
- Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures
- Facilitate team meetings to develop, groom and deliver user stories in collaboration with internal stakeholders, UX and the product owner.
About you, you have:
- Ideally 7-10 years’ experience building, testing, and managing web-based applications.
- At least 5 years of recent, strong, hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
- 5+ years’ experience implementing QA automated frameworks such as Playwright, Webdriver.io
- Experience using webpack for deploying web applications.
- Experiencing building highly available, accessible applications.
- Demonstrated proficiency building React single-page or progressive web applications
- Experience with version control using Git, test automation, and experience provisioning and managing Cloud infrastructure as code using AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, and/or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Experience managing and designing high availability applications on AWS cloud platform preferred
- Proven track record of training and coaching less experienced teammates in new technologies
- Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving and practical decision-making skills
- Self-starter with the ability to set priorities, work independently and attain goals
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies
- Effective communicator, a believer in good comments and documentation
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum and iterative development environment
- Experience implementing native mobile and desktop applications a plus
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 $158,000 to $173,000
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.
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
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What We Do
College Board is a not-for-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, BigFuture, and more. For more information, go to collegeboard.org
