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The College Board Senior Lead Engineer, Teamship in NEW YORK, New York
College Board - Technology Division 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 About the Team The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that aims to clear a path for all students to own their futures. We focus on expanding access to higher education and helping students develop the skills they need for college and career readiness, serving more than 7 million students annually - a reach unparalleled in a fragmented sector. As part of this mission, College Board is expanding its work at the intersection of education and the workforce through the acquisition of District C, a nonprofit organization and scaling its flagship work-based learning program,Teamship. This acquisition strengthens College Board's ability to deliver real-world, career-relevant learning experiences that help students build the durable skills employers value most - including collaboration, problem-solving, and communication. Learn more about the acquisition here. This is our first acquisition in over a decade. Teamship is a work-based learning model in which small teams of students work on real business challenges for real employers, gaining hands-on experience while building confidence, social capital, and transferable skills. Learn more about Teamship here. Our team is entering an exciting build and scale phase - bringing together College Board's reach, technology, and operational expertise with the strength of the Teamship model. We're assembling a cross-functional group of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers who thrive on solving meaningful problems to join the Teamship Team to ensure more students have access to meaningful work-based learning and can build the durable skills employers value most. About the Opportunity As a Senior Lead Engineer you'll lead the charge in building a national-scale platform that empowers students to engage with real employer challenges and develop career-defining skills. Working alongside a Product Manager and Product Designer, you'll architect and build cutting-edge software that supports educators, engages business partners, and scales to tens of thousands of students. You'll shape technical strategy, define high-quality engineering practices, and steer how our technology evolves. You'll also anchor agile operations, lead peer reviews, resolve production issues, and ensure our system is robust, secure, and efficient. If you're excited by building foundational systems that will impact learners and partners across the country, this is a high-stakes opportunity to drive real change. In this role, you will: Design & Implementation (50%) Design and implement high-quality software using the latest technologies with a focus on building component-based, cost-effective, scalable, and secure solutions using design patterns to improve collaboration with other microservices/apps and promoting code reuse Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps. Team Operations & Success (25%) Participate in, or lead Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables. Participate and lead peer reviews of software engineering artifacts Assist in the resolution of production issues Adhere to development standards and security policies and procedures Adopt the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based on the team's DevOps model Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team in a poly-skil ed devel