College Board is looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, implement, and deploy modern web applications and backend APIs/microservices, and maintain these services in high-traffic production environments within the AWS cloud. The role involves contributing to the entire feature lifecycle, from requirements analysis to deployment and support, and making sure interfaces and integrations are clear and accurate.
Requirements
- Minimum 3-5 years of strong Full stack development experience in React, Typescript and Node.js
- Minimum of 1-2 years of hands-on experience developing solutions with AWS services, including Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch and more
- Experience in DevOps and Agile methodologies
- Hands-on experience with AWS CDK and/or CloudFormation
- Automation using Playwright
- Experience with Java
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, develop, test and deploy full stack AWS Cloud solutions that include modern web applications, highly scalable REST APIs, microservices, data pipelines and other event driven applications using Node.JS and serverless technologies. Create technical documentation such as flow diagrams, design specs etc.
- Continuously deliver new software features by developing infrastructure-as-code (CDK) and scripting of automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement observability solutions that allow our team to log, monitor, and analyze system health and user activity patterns.
- Identify opportunities for improving application functionality and performance, seek continuous feedback from customers, identify and mitigate technical risks.
- Utilize application development tools and methodologies across multiple platforms.
- Collaborate with the team to deliver code that uses best practices and design patterns, that includes comprehensive unit testing, and that has gone through a sound code-review process.
Other
- Minimum 7 years of experience in professional software development
- Minimum 5-6 years of hands-on development experience at a senior level
- Proactive with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility
- Capable of analyzing, planning, designing, and owning complex or vaguely defined issues with little or no supervision
- Collaborative attitude that incorporates various perspectives
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
- Strong problem solving and organizational skills
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
- Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal. Fluent in using AI.
- 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
