Senior Full Stack Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer

This team seeks an EXPERT in JavaScript ES6, Typescript, Node JS, AWS Serverless and React. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, candidate will be responsible for complex software development including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects and closely adhering to deadlines. Candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation. Candidate will ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members are professional and meet expectations.

The College Board – a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to providing excellence and equity in education – manages a complex and comprehensive suite of data systems, data feeds and reports to support students and educators across multiple assessments, programs and services. Working within the Information Technology division and across the Operations and key business units, the Senior Full Stack Engineer will analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions to attain high data quality and process automation. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will design, develop, implement, and deploy AWS cloud solutions, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization's goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will have designed, developed and implemented serverless software solutions in support of data quality and automation. The candidate will also possess technical skills and experience in the data management and transactional systems domains that will help their ability to design and develop elegant and efficient cloud enabled data processes and systems.

Required Skills

Designs, Builds, tests, deploys and maintains production code for complex web-based applications using Cloud technologies and micro-services with AWS services.

Expert level experience in NodeJS and scripting in a Cloud based environment

Advanced level of experience with React & UI frameworks, tools and technologies

Develops comprehensive test plans and automation test suites.

Demonstrated advanced experience with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS and DynamoDB, AWS CICD/CDK devops

Demonstrated experience in developing and monitoring full stack solutions with microservice architecture using NodeJS

Responsible for support of and coordinating with other Engineers, Architects and teams including other technology teams such as a User Experience team or an infrastructure team.

Effective communication skills are a must along with a strong customer service orientation, and the ability to clearly discern client needs.

Fundamentals in OO and computer science foundation principles.

Preferred Skills

High analytical skills and knack to develop and monitor tools for High frequency web apps and data services.

Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude – willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary

Advanced demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.

Experience with relational databases, and NoSQL databases

Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques

Appetite to Learn new things

Education/Certifications

Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s)

Relevant AWS or other professional certifications

Tech Stack

Technology - Some Awareness (1) - Novice (2) - Intermediate (3) - Advanced (4) - Expert (5)

AWS - Dynamo

AWS - Lambda

AWS - S3

node.js Development

React / UX Development

AWS - SNS/SQS

AWS – CICD/CDK

AWS Cloud Observability (ex. Cloudwatch, eventbridge)

AWS - Glue

AWS - Firehose

Python

SQL/RDS

AWS EMR Spark