Full Stack Engineer

College Board Technology Division – Item Cloud Teal Team 

100% Remote 

About the Team: 

The Item Cloud Teal team drives innovation at College Board by developing shared-services solutions to benefit both our peer Item Cloud engineering teams, as well as the test item creators we all support. The vision at team Teal is to unify, reuse, and create new solutions across our division, while also advising on technical design and best practices to optimize for our mission. Item Cloud spans several teams, creating internal-facing web applications to support the digital transformation of our core products. The team consists of 3 groups (Blue, Green, and Teal), with several sub-teams, each owning a unique piece of high-impact and secure React applications focused on our internal content creation processes. We leverage serverless infrastructure and modern technologies 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 creative problem solvers and idea generators, whose impacts have led to innovations and dramatic improvements in College Board’s biggest programs, clearing the path for all students to own their future 

About the Opportunity: 

As a 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 high-impact content creation web applications that integrate with a rapidly growing content management ecosystem. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative. 

In this role, you will: 

• Design and implement, in collaboration with your team, data-intensive services and components with an emphasis on reusability, scalability, and security 
• Understand our users’ workflows and processes and use technology to help them solve problems 
• Think holistically and participate in conversations on proposed architecture, testing strategies, the developer experience, security, performance, and fault-tolerance 
• Collaborate within our team and within Item Cloud through code review, effective written communication, and pair or mob programming 
• Mentor and help junior engineers in their growth 

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About you, you have: 

• Ideally 4+ years of professional software development experience   
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with TypeScript and JavaScript across the stack (React, Node.js) 
• Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, EC2, SQS, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB 
• Experience provisioning and …