Backend Engineer
US Remote @The College Board posted 3 weeks ago in Software Engineering Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 846
Job Description
Backend Engineer
College Board – Technology
Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position working core EST hours.
About the Team
The Cross-Program Microservices team plays a critical role in reimagining how student data is managed, secured, and leveraged across our organization. Our 20+ person engineering team are structured into three cross-functional groups focusing on different projects. We are leading the charge in transforming College Board’s backend systems to be more privacy-forward, modular, and resilient. Our team is essential to the organization’s most visible and impactful work, ensuring that student data is responsibly managed and securely shared across K–12 and higher education ecosystems. Whether you’re supporting new feature development or helping modernize legacy systems, you’ll be building tools and platforms that help power the flow of student educational data from registration to score release in a secure, efficient way.
About the Opportunity
As a Backend Engineer, you will be a key contributor in modernizing how we manage and protect student data. You will work closely with your team along with Product DevOps, Network Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams to design, build and manage robust infrastructure solutions in AWS at scale. You are a rising technologist who enjoys solving complex backend challenges and working in a fast-paced, agile environment with real-world impact. Through your growing knowledge and expertise, you will apply your skillset to develop next generation solutions while working with experienced architects and developers in an environment that values independence, ownership, and accountability.
In this role, you will:
Develop and Implement (80%)
- Develop robust, well-architected application logic using scalable design patterns with Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, supported by senior team members.
- Use features of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build and scale a “serverless” infrastructure that is purpose-built, efficient, and cost-effective for the application needs.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code principles to automate deployment and scale services efficiently
- Occasionally support frontend development using ReactJS for efficient responsive user interfaces
Support and Troubleshooting (20%)
- Own the resolution of bugs and issues in production, including participation in release cycles
- Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and team leads to deliver resilient, high-quality software
- Participate in application hardening efforts and ensure systems are well-documented and secure
About you, you have
- 2-3+ years of professional software development experience with the College Board’s technology stack at least with:
- Strong hands-on experience in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, Lambda, SNS, SQS)
- Strong knowledge preferably hands-on experience in master data management (databases, data modeling, data structures) and some IaC
- Python, React, AppSync, EventBridge, performance testing, and security knowledge are nice to haves
- Strong focus on quality demonstrated by thoroughly testing code and using automation
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies as required, are a good communicator with practical decision-making skills, and a believer in good comments and documentation
- Experience in hands-on development of software applications for the web in a professional environment
- Ability to travel 2-3 times a year
- Ability to work on-call/after hours as needed to support critical operations and production releases
- Authorization to work in the United States
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