Senior Front-End Engineer

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 Senior 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. Your 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 high 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%)

• 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 identification and resolution of production issues
• Ensure peers are adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures

About you, you have:

• Ideally 5+ years’ experience building, testing, and managing web-based applications.
• At least 3 years of recent, strong, hands-on experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript
• 3+ years’ experience implementing QA automated frameworks such as Playwright, Webdriver.io.
• Experience building React applications.
• Fluent in building accessible web applications.
• Experience using webpack for deploying 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)
• Proven track record o