Lead Full Stack Engineer, Platform Services

Lead   Full Stack   Engineer , 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 helps   monitor   and 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.   Team   is   responsible for   designing, building, and deploying into the shell, integrating data and functionality from multiple domains into a single, cohesive entry point for users.   It's   a 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 for   a cloud-native, AWS-based platform that integrates data and services from multiple domains into a cohesive, performant user experience. This role   is   expected 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.   You   can   lead technical design discussions across multiple teams, mentor and grow other engineers ,   and constructively challenge approaches that   won't   scale ,   while   remaining   hands-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%)   Develop and   maintain   deep understanding of the business processes and domains that the BAWP UI serves, and translate that understanding into platform-wide technical strategy   Own the evaluation of complex, cross-team feature requests, drive effort   estimation   and technical planning across squads, and   identify   dependencies and risks early   Define, document, and evolve architectural patterns and API contracts for integrating multiple domain services into the BAWP UI, ensuring consistency across teams   Lead peer code and design reviews across teams to ensure quality, consistency, and scalability, and   establish   review standards other engineers follow   Design, Architecture & Implementation (50%)   Architect and build scalable, secure full-stack solutions using React (TypeScript) on the front end and AWS-native services on the backend   Design and implement APIs and data integration layers that aggregate content from multiple upstream domains, with robust handling of latency, partial failures, and caching   Design reusable, well-architected front-end   components   and shared modules within the   shell shared across domains   (micro-frontend/Module Federation or equivalent), setting the standard for other engineers to build against   Design and implement cloud-native architectures using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, ECS, CloudWatch)   Define and evolve architectural patterns, automation practices, and observability standards across the platform, and ensure adoption across teams   Ensure systems meet enterprise requirements for scalability, data integrity, security, availability, and reliability at a platform-wide level   Integrate monitoring, telemetry, and operational readiness into all platform components, and drive resolution of systemic reliability issues   Own and evolve automated end-to-end and UI testing strategy across the platform to ensure application quality and reliability   Drive performance optimization across API integration and rendering layers, and set performance benchmarks/standards for other teams   Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence (25%)   Solve the most complex technical problems on the platform and drive improvements to overall system design   Mentor and grow other engineers, including senior engineers, on best practices in development, testing, system design, and technical decision-making   Evaluate and introduce new cloud, front-end, and test automation technologies where they add platform-wide value   Communicate technical strategy, trade-offs, and architectural decisions clearly to engineering leadership and business stakeholders   Champion and help   establish   best practices in secure system design, automation, performance, and resilient engineering across the organization   Team Operations & Cross-Functional Collaboration (10%)   Partner with product, operations, security, and domain teams to shape aligned, well-integrated solutions at a platform-wide level   Lead platform readiness efforts through testing, monitoring, and reliability strategy   Drive documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives across teams   Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines   Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, accountability, and continuous improvement across the bro