Full Stack Engineer

Job description:

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Duration: 5+ Months Long term Contract

Location: Remote

TECHNICAL SKILLS

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer , candidate will be responsible for complex software development including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects and closely adhering to deadlines. Candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation. Candidate will ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members and are professional and meet expectations.

The College Board – a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to providing excellence and equity in education – manages a complex and comprehensive suite of data systems, data feeds and reports to support students and educators across multiple assessments, programs and services. Working within the Information Technology division and across the Operations and key business units, the Senior Full Stack Engineer will analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions to attain high data quality and process automation. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will design, develop and implement solutions, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization's goals and objectives.

The ideal candidate will have designed, developed and implemented serverless software solutions in support of data quality and automation. The candidate will also possess technical skills and experience in the data management domain that will help their ability to design and develop elegant and efficient data processes and systems.

Required Skills:

Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience with software development.

Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies and implementation environments

Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS in a Cloud based environment

Strong working knowledge of React JS

Experience with relational databases, and NoSQL databases

Possess technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services.

Design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices

Working experience on CI/CD using Jenkins /AWS Code pipeline

Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS

Fundamentals in OO and computer science foundation principles.

Working knowledge of distributed architectural design patterns

Knowledge of systems analysis and design (including OOAD and UML), and database design

Knowledge of software development lifecycle and modern software engineering principles and practices

Preferred Skills:

High analytical skills and knack to develop tools for monitoring high frequency data services.

Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude – willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary

Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like Java, React JS, Angular JS or Python development.

Ability to use: KMS, ALB/ELB, Route 53, VPC, CDK

Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, GitHub

Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques

Appetite to Learn new things

Education/Certifications:

Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s)

Relevant AWS or other professional certifications