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This is a full-time position BigFuture is committed to empowering all students to take the right first step after high school, reaching over 7 million students each year as the leading free resource for college, scholarship, and career exploration. The BigFuture Student team builds and maintains the full breadth of BigFuture student products like BigFuture School a mobile app & bigfuture.org including but not limited to College Search, Scholarship Search, Career Search, dashboards, checklists, and community features so that students can confidently discover, define, and pursue their unique paths. We work in an agile, collaborative environment that values creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving, delivering clean and sustainable solutions that scale to meet the needs of millions while reducing technical debt. Engineers on our team not only code, but also mentor, document, and partner with product and design to shape solutions and influence the direction of our work. We thrive on learning from each other, raising risks early, and finding simplicity in complexity, all while celebrating shared successes and growth. Together, we are mission-driven technologists who take pride in building products that positively transform the educational and career trajectories of students nationwide. This is a chance to have a direct hand in building the future of BigFuture, the most widely used college and career planning platform for students. As a Lead Engineer on this team, you are a leader, collaborator, and innovator. Define, document, and communicate the architecture and design patterns for the system or product area. You'll work closely with product owners, architects, and designers to translate ideas into solutions, and with fellow engineers to raise the bar on code quality, documentation, and sustainable practices including operational readiness and monitoring. From day one, you'll be encouraged to coach teammates, influence technical decisions, and help simplify complex problems so that students and educators experience fast, reliable, and meaningful tools. Beyond building products, this role offers you the opportunity to elevate engineering practices, explore emerging technologies like AI, and grow into a trusted technical leader whose work impacts millions of students each year. You are not shy about taking on new work you may not have done before while owning all phases of prototyping including requirements definition and analysis, application design, coding, reviewing, testing, deploying, and support. You are eager to lead by example as well as more formally through peer collaboration, coaching and mentoring. Design and deliver high-quality software that is scalable, secure, and reusable-leveraging modern technologies, proven design patterns, and cloud-native practices to power BigFuture's core tools.
~ Design and implement solutions to allow rapid testing of innovative concepts using the latest technologies, typically React web apps
~ Maintain clean code and strong engineering standards such that when prototypes are greenlit for further development, the project is easy to build upon
~ Team Operations & Success (30%) ~ Participate in, or lead Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) by contributing to team deliverables and driving alignment, focus, and momentum across sprints.
~ Elevate team performance by giving and receiving thoughtful code reviews, mentoring peers, and helping solve complex technical challenges.
~ Assist in resolving production issues with urgency and precision, ensuring a smooth and reliable user experience.
~ Model discipline in adhering to development standards, security practices, and CI/CD principles while helping the team move fast without compromising quality.
~ Serve as an organizational Subject Matter Expert on implementing Generative AI applications
~ Work with our Enterprise Architecture team to review and/or establish implementation patterns involving Generative AI tools
~ Advise on, and where feasible, create tools and infrastructure that will enable teams to safely deploy Generative AI tools
Keep abreast of developments in GenAI capabilities and implementations
~ Share knowledge of new developments with the team via chats, meetings, and presentations when appropriate
~ Serve as an advisor to internal teams developing staff education around Generative AI
7+ years of professional experience designing, building, testing, and managing scalable web applications in AWS-hosted environments
~3+ years' experience building back-end applications using Node(with TypeScript)
~ Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, DynamoDB)
~ Experience building observability for your products
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Hands-on experience implementing Generative AI applications (e.g., Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with back-end technologies such as Node.js and/or Python
~ Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven messaging patterns
~ Strong knowledge of AWS services (e.g., Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
~ Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and practical decision-making skills
~ Proficiency in reviewing and improving code structure and architecture for testability, maintainability, and scalability, with hands-on experience in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, APIs, and AWS Serverless technologies (Lambdas, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
~ Leadership in the end-to-end design and implementation of user interfaces, from architectural planning and component strategy through to polished execution, including accessibility, performance optimization, and mentoring peers on building intuitive, scalable, and user-centric front-end solutions.
~ Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related engineering fields preferred
Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
~ A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
~ Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
~ While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding or whiteboarding sessions, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck-we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. We aim to make our best offer upfront-rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
~ We prioritize building a diverse and inclusive team where every employee can thrive, and every voice is heard.
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