Lead Full Stack Engineer, Platform Services

College Board•Remote - Virginia, VA

9d•$168,000 - $183,000•Remote

About The Position

The Platform Services Team monitors and assures the health, security, and performance of 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. The 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. This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of architecture, cross-domain collaboration, and platform reliability. 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.

Requirements

8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting scalable, cloud-native full-stack applications
5+ years of experience building modern front-end applications using TypeScript and React
Proven experience setting technical direction and standards across multiple teams or a platform, not just within a single team
Strong hands-on experience with backend technologies such as Node.js (preferably TypeScript), building APIs and data integration layers at scale
Deep experience with AWS services: Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB
Experience designing systems that integrate and aggregate data and content from multiple independent backend/domain services into a single UI
Strong knowledge of distributed cloud infrastructure and microservices architecture, with experience making trade-offs at an architectural level
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Backstage)
Experience building responsive, secure, high-performance UIs using React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
Familiarity with micro-frontend architectures (e.g., Module Federation) and shared shell/component patterns
Experience establishing automated testing frameworks and standards for end-to-end and UI testing, and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines
Diligent about peer code review, with particular rigor around reviewing AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability before it is merged.
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction without direct management authority
Strong focus on scalability, data integrity, reliability, and quality engineering practices
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present ideas in business-friendly language to senior stakeholders and lead cross-team technical discussions
Ability to prioritize and lead execution of complex, cross-team initiatives in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
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.
Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
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.
A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success.

Nice To Haves

Experience with LaunchDarkly.
Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch dashboards
Familiarity with real-time stream processing (Apache Flink or similar)
Familiarity with ML/AI lifecycle concepts, and interest in AI-driven features (e.g., AI-generated insights) as part of the platform roadmap
Understanding of data isolation, performance segmentation, and secure access in distributed systems
Prior experience as a technical lead, staff engineer, or architect setting standards across multiple teams

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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 broader engineering organization