Profile: This is a senior backend individual contributor role. The team seeks a technically strong backend engineer who can design solutions and provide hands-on support.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, test, deploy and document backend solutions on AWS, including the infrastructure and delivery pipelines that run them. You will improve shared patterns and components and help the team move its systems forward.
You will report to the Senior Director and work in agile teams that build and maintain highly visible, critical applications. You will design and tune software patterns, help teammates use them, and from time to time implement, test and document complex solutions. You will also keep strong, professional relationships with customers and partner teams.
You will follow emerging technology trends, apply them to College Board's needs, and work with teams on practices, standards and guidelines.
Our engineers use AI coding agents such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in everyday development, and you will help the team use them well and safely.
We're looking for a skilled communicator and active partner who can turn business needs into lasting, high-quality solutions that support College Board's mission.
Responsibilities of the Role
• Design and build backend AWS solutions and the continuous delivery pipelines that ship them with quality
• Write complex code, build and maintain AWS infrastructure with CDK, and automate testing and deployment
• Design multi-tenant backend services with tenant data isolation
• Own DevOps for the solutions you build, including deployments, monitoring and production support
• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) day to day to design, write, test and document code, and own the quality of what ships
• Review AI-generated code with the same rigor as any other code
• Own the quality of your work: set quality criteria, use reviews, and keep improving
• Write design specs, unit tests and technical documentation, including documenting current-state systems
• Develop and apply standards, patterns and processes that make our systems consistent, lower risk and improve efficiency
• Define best practices for modeling, storing and moving data in cloud applications
• Mentor teammates on best practices, cloud technologies and safe use of AI coding tools
• Improve the team's processes, speed and quality using ideas from other teams and the industry
Qualifications Needed for the Role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or MIS
• 7+ years of experience in software systems and backend programming
• 5+ years of backend development with Node.js and TypeScript on AWS
• 4+ years hands-on with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3 and DynamoDB
• Strong hands-on experience building AWS infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
• Strong experience with Git and associated methodologies
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS applications, including tenant data isolation and tenant-scoped access control
• Working knowledge of AWS serverless architecture, distributed architecture patterns, and AWS data services such as Athena and Glue
• Hands-on experience using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to build, test and ship production software
• Good judgment on when to trust, check or reject AI-generated code, and awareness of risks such as prompt injection, data exposure and over-broad permissions
• Experience mentoring other engineers on cloud technology
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills
• Able to handle multiple projects, work independently, and be a supportive Scrum team member
Preferred Skills for the Role
• Familiarity with AWS networking and containers (for example VPC, ECS/Fargate)
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with event-driven design and API design
