Lead Front-End Engineer

As a Lead 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. Their efforts will directly contribute to the smooth and secure delivery of exams, impacting hundreds of thousands of students globally.

In this role, you will:   

Team Operations & Success (25%)

• Lead and Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
• Lead peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
• Give timely feedback to junior engineers to maintain a high quality of engagement.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of production issues
• Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures
• Facilitate team meetings to develop, groom and deliver user stories in collaboration with internal stakeholders, UX and the product owner.

About you, you have:

• Ideally 7-10 years’ experience building, testing, and managing web-based applications.
• At least 5 years of recent, strong, hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
• 5+ years’ experience implementing QA automated frameworks such as Playwright, Webdriver.io
• Experience using webpack for deploying web applications.
• Experiencing building highly available, accessible applications.
• Demonstrated proficiency building React single-page or progressive 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)
• Experience managing and designing high availability applications on AWS cloud platform preferred
• Proven track record of training and coaching less experienced teammates in new technologies
• Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving and practical decision-making skills
• Self-starter with the ability to set priorities, work independently and attain goals
• Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies
• Effective communicator, a believer in good comments and documentation
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum and iterative development environment
• Experience implementing native mobile and desktop applications a plus

College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.  

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $158,000 to $173,000  

College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.  Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.  

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
• A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.