The College Board Hiring for Software Engineering Manager at Frankfort, Kentucky Full Time

Software Engineering Manager College Board Technology Division – Item Cloud Green Team Remote About the Team: The Item Cloud team is committed to building and driving innovation for internal-facing web applications that support College Board’s core products. Our team consists of 2 small squads, each of which owns a unique, data-intensive, high-impact, single-page web application that represent our internal content creation processes. We own the full stack, from the infrastructure in AWS to the front-end and back-end code deployed there. We build everything serverless, in the cloud, leveraging current technologies and novel techniques to be a force-multiplier for the programs we serve. We are remote, but close-knit. We are strong advocates of work/life balance and flexibility with schedules when needed. We often accomplish our work through paired or mob programming. We are proactive, passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and efficiency. We use Agile scrum to manage our work and deliver value regularly following a DevOps model. The impact of our efforts as creative problem-solvers and idea-generators leads to innovations and dramatic improvements in College Board’s biggest program applications, serving millions of students to help them take ownership of their future. About the Opportunity: As a Software Engineering Manager on our team, you use your wide range of skills and experience in technology to lead a group of developers in their efforts to architect, implement, test, and deploy their code in a multi-environment infrastructure. You help unblock the team when they’re stuck, which could include digging into the code yourself, pair programming, training, or pointing developers in the right direction. You utilize your background in basic web design, full-stack development, and DevOps (CI/CD & infrastructure) to deliver a high-impact content creation web app that integrates with a newly emerging content management ecosystem. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative. You still work in the code base, reviewing pull requests and writing code, roughly 50% of your time. You often lead large projects from start to finish, delegating tasks to the team and ensuring their completion. In this role, you will: – Manage projects from start to scheduled finish, ensuring team members are unblocked, productive, and working collaboratively – Guide individual team members in their career paths, annual goals, and performance – Collaborate with leadership, stakeholders, and team members to architect and implement data-intensive, highly secure, React components and Node.js microservices – Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our customer’s business processes and operations – Participate in pair programming and mob programming sessions, solving complex problems, and innovating on new ideas – Ensure the team refactors ugly code to be simple and readable – Lead conversations on proposed architecture, testing strategies, developer experience improvements, security enhancements, performance optimization, and fault-tolerance About You You have: – Ideally 5-7 years of software development experience in a production environment – Solid experience with React, Node.js, REST and CRUD – Hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies, ideally with AWS – Intermediate knowledge of AuthN, AuthZ and/or RBAC – Practical experience with Unit and Integration testing – Strong communication and interpersonal skills – Experience mentoring and coaching technology teams to consistently deliver high-quality products that align to customer requirements – Proven experience in ensuring teams adhere to development best practices and security policies and procedures Additional nice-to-have’s (not required): – Experience with TypeScript, CSS and GraphQL – Experience with AWS resources including any mix of Route 53, EC2, S3, CloudFront, VPCs, Security Groups, ELB, Lambdas, IAM, CloudWatch and SecretsManager – Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD and NoSQL – Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK), functional programming concepts, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) – Knowledge in DevOps best practices, Developer Experience (DX) topics, and User Experience (UX) concepts About Our Benefits and Compensation: College Board offers a strong compensation and benefits package that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. – Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, tuition assistance, paid time off, paid parental leave, retirement benefits with a generous matching program, and more. – We reward performance through annual bonuses and provide opportunities for salary growth over time through base compensation increases, merit raises and promotions. – We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact. The salary range for a new employee in this position is $135,000 to $165,000. The salary offer of an individual candidate within this range is specific to their location and qualifications. – Each salary offer is determined carefully using internal and external benchmarking and adjusting for the candidate’s location. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process. – As a self-sustaining non-profit organization with global impact, College Board offers a job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive! About Our Culture: – We are motivated to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students a year – We prioritize building a diverse and inclusive team where every employee can thrive, and every voice is heard – We value learning and growth; we offer formal and informal ways to lead through your strengths, sharpen your skills, and achieve your development goals – We work with the latest technologies, so you will be industry-forward instead of left behind #LI-MS1 #LI-REMOTE