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The College Board Senior Full Stack Engineer in Olympia, Washington
College Board Technology Division - Item Cloud Blue Remote About the Team The Item Cloud team is committed to building and driving innovation for internal-facing web applications that support College Board's core products. Our team consists of 2 small squads, each of which owns a unique, data-intensive, high-impact, single-page web application that represents our internal content creation processes. We own the full stack, from the infrastructure in AWS to the front-end and back-end code deployed there. We build everything serverless, in the cloud, leveraging current technologies and novel techniques 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 often accomplish our work through paired or mob programming. We are proactive, passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and efficiency. We use Agile scrum to manage our work and deliver value regularly following a DevOps model. The impact of our efforts as cre ative problem-solvers and idea-generators leads to innovations and dramatic improvements in College Board's biggest program applications, serving millions of students to help them take ownership of their future. About the Opportunity As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on our Item Cloud team, you are a poly skilled technologist and problem-solver. You possess extensive knowledge and expertise designing, implementing, and testing performant and fault-tolerant serverless and container-based apps executing in the cloud. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven and energized by collaboration with teammates and a desire to stay abreast of new technologies. These traits along with your ability to learn quickly enable you to work harmoniously as you apply innovative, cloud-based solutions within College Board's Technology group. In this role, you will: * Design, develop, and maintain user-facing features and back-end services using React, TypeScript, and AWS services, ensuring scalability and reliability * Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS CDK * Work closely with cross-functional teams, provide technical guidance to junior developers, and drive the adoption of best practices and new technologies * Optimize application performance, implement automated testing using Playwright, and ensure technical feasibility and code quality through reviews * Solve complex problems using divergent thinking resulting in innovative solutions * Follow DevOps best practices including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code * Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our customer's business processes and operations * Support team-centered, Agile software development About You You have: * Ideally 5+ years' experience in full stack development, building, testing, and managing web-based applications * At least 3 years of recent, strong, hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js and AWS services * Experience working within the AWS cloud ecosystem, including serverless architecture and resources such as Lambda, Gateway API, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and DynamoDB * A passion for learning, driving change, and proposing solutions to complex problems * Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science, systems engineering, information systems or similar In addition, you are: * User and mission oriented * Generous in service of students, colleagues, and partners About Our Process * To view the full job description,