Lead Full Stack Engineer, Platform Services

LeadFull StackEngineer, Platform Services

College Board — Technology, InfoSec & Infrastructure

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Platform Services Team helpsmonitorand assure the health, security, and performance of the systems within a shared platform. The team owns a key piece of the platform shell,a shared foundation that domain teams across the organization build on to deliver a unified user experience.Teamisresponsible fordesigning, building, and deploying into the shell, integrating data and functionality from multiple domains into a single, cohesive entry point for users.It'sa high-visibility role at the intersection of architecture, cross-domain collaboration, and platform reliability.

About the Opportunity

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will set the technical direction fora cloud-native, AWS-based platform that integrates data and services from multiple domains into a cohesive, performant user experience. This roleisexpected to shape architecture and engineering standards across the platform, guide multiple engineers and squads toward a shared technical vision, and represent the platform's technical strategy in conversations with cross-functional and cross-domain stakeholders.

You bring deep full-stack engineering expertise, with mastery across React front-end development and AWS-based backend/API architecture, and you have a track record of owning technical direction beyond a single feature or team,defining patterns and standards that other engineers and teams build on. You are comfortable making and defending architectural trade-offs at scale, and you actively drive alignment across teams rather than waiting for direction.

Youcanlead technical design discussions across multiple teams, mentor and grow other engineers,and constructively challenge approaches thatwon'tscale,whileremaininghands-on in the code where it matters most. You understand cloud software delivery practices deeply, stay ahead of emerging tools and patterns, and can clearly communicate technical strategy and trade-offs to both engineers and senior stakeholders.

In this role, you will:

Technical Strategy & Solutioning (15%)

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Develop andmaintaindeep understanding of the business processes and domains that the BAWP UI serves, and translate that understanding into platform-wide technical strategy

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Own the evaluation of complex, cross-team feature requests, drive effortestimationand technical planning across squads, andidentifydependencies and risks early

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Define, document, and evolve architectural patterns and API contracts for integrating multiple domain services into the BAWP UI, ensuring consistency across teams

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Lead peer code and design reviews across teams to ensure quality, consistency, and scalability, andestablishreview standards other engineers follow

Design, Architecture & Implementation (50%)

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Architect and build scalable, secure full-stack solutions using React (TypeScript) on the front end and AWS-native services on the backend

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Design and implement APIs and data integration layers that aggregate content from multiple upstream domains, with robust handling of latency, partial failures, and caching

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Design reusable, well-architected front-endcomponentsand shared modules within theshell shared across domains(micro-frontend/Module Federation or equivalent), setting the standard for other engineers to build against

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Design and implement cloud-native architectures using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, ECS, CloudWatch)

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Define and evolve architectural patterns, automation practices, and observability standards across the platform, and ensure adoption across teams

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Ensure system