Senior Full Stack Engineer

Client: EdTech

Title: Full Stack Engineer

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

Profile:

·        Must have strong TypeScript and JavaScript (ES6) along with React development expertise. This role is for a full-stack engineer with solid backend experience using Node.js and AWS serverless technologies. Candidates should be comfortable building both frontend applications and scalable backend services

Job Description:

·        As a Senior Full Stack 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 and implement 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 domain that will help their ability to design and develop elegant and efficient data processes and systems.

Team:

·        This team is working on external user-facing products/programs – both new development and redesign of legacy applications into modern AWS-based React/Node applications.

·        Most dev teams work in a poly skilled manner working on automation and improving frameworks for testing in addition to core development.

·        The hiring manager is looking for highly motivated engineers with solid communication skills that can operate with minimal guidance. Someone that can hit the ground running and is comfortable engaging with their teams remotely.

Required Skills

·        Strong experience in full-stack development

·        Strong experience in React and TypeScript

·        Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6)

·        Solid experience with Node.js backend development

·        Experience working with AWS services and deploying applications to AWS

·        Experience building REST APIs and microservices

·        Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and automation

·        Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Skills

·        Experience with automated testing (E2E and API testing)

·        Familiarity with AWS CDK or CloudFormation

·        Experience with event-driven architectures

·        Experience working in Agile environments