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…

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