College Board Technology Division - Assessment Delivery
100% Remote(working EST)
About the Team
The Test Day Toolkit (TDTK) team at College Board is a dedicated team of
20+ technologists with a passion for student success. We are committed to
providing exceptional tools and customer support to facilitate the Digital
Testing, Test Administration Management and Test Day Operations. We utilize
the best-of-breed Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology solutions to
empower all users of College Board's Test Day applications to be successful
in the administration of the Digital SAT Suite. We are the face of the College
Board for running Test Day Operations, partnering across the organization
with other teams on the Bluebook Digital Assessment Platform to further the
program, technology, and operational goals for College Board and the
students t
About the Opportunity
As a Full Stack Engineer,, you are a collaborator and innovator.You have a
strong interest in understanding and improving products for our key customers.
You relish the opportunity to bring your ideas and your love of coding to
support, enhance and define the future of applications that will be used by
thousands of state, district, and school administrators across the
country.You are not shy about taking on new work or utilizing technologies you
may not have previously utilized while eagerly contributing to all phases of
software engineering, including requirements definition and analysis,
application design, coding, coaching, testing, deploying, and support.
In this role, you will:
Design & Implementation (75%)
- Design and implement high-quality software using the latest technologies
with a focus on building component-based, cost-effective, scalable, and
secure solutions using design patterns to improve collaboration with other
microservices /apps and promoting code reuse
- 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.
Team Operations & Success (15%)
- Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming,
Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
- Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
- Assist in the resolution of production issues
- Adhere to development standards and security policies and procedures
- Adopt the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality
code based on the team's DevOps model
- Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team
in a poly-skilled development environment
Software Solutioning & Design (10%)
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the customer's business
processes and operations
- Work closely with Solutions Architect, Lead Engineer and Data Leads
evaluating feature requests, providing level-of-effort estimates and
contributing to sprint planning
- Conduct and participates in peer code and design reviews
About you, you have:
- Ideally 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with JavaScript/Typescript,
React, Node.js
- Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and experience working with AWS
resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Open Search, Step
Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, DynamoDB
- Experience with version control using Git, build automation using
Webpack, continuous integration using AWS Code Pipeline or similar, and
test automation
- Independent, proactive, and able to deliver high-quality code.
- Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills using data
to inform decisions and actions
- Experience w rking in an Agile / Scrum development environment with an
ethos of continuous improvement
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn new and innovative technologies.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills working cross-functionally
with other engineers and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Enthusiastic about innovating and learning
- You must be authorized to work in the US
About Our Process
- Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the
position is filled
- While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes resume and
application submission, recruiter 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
- The College Board offers a strong compensation and benefits package that