Engineering Manager
College Board– Technology
Location:This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have theoptionof being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employeesare required tooccasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
Type: This is a full-time position
AboutTechnologyat College Board
We are a mission-driven engineering team building and evolving the technology that powers and protects the future of learning. Our systems support highly trusted education programs used by millions of students each year,operatingatsignificantscale and public responsibility. Today, we are focused on designing and delivering a critical new initiative that extends our platform in meaningful ways:blending foundational system work with thoughtful experimentation as we adapt to emerging technologies and new learner needs. We combine modern, cloud-native engineering practices with years of platform modernization, security hardening, and large-scale digital delivery,operatingas an experiment factory that tests assumptions and iterates based on evidence rather than tradition. What makes this team distinct is the rare combination of meaningful public impact, platform-scale technical challenges, and the freedom to shape how mission-critical systems are built and evolved.
About the Team
TheCore Assessment Platformis a group of cross-functional teams responsible for building and evolving shared platform capabilities that support assessment-related systems used by institutions at scale. The work spans a range of assessment contexts, from routine evaluation to more complex, high-stakes environments, where accuracy, consistency, and trust are essential. Teams collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and operations to build reliable capabilities that can be reused and adapted over time.What makes this group special is its focus oncontinuous learning, experimentation, and steady improvement, with success driven by thoughtful collaboration, iteration, and careful decision-making in environments where reliability and quality matter.
About the Opportunity
As Engineering Manager, this roleleads teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities within Core Assessment Platforms and requires strong technical judgment grounded in hands-on engineering experience. Leaders in this space are expected tooperateat or near a senior engineer level in system design and code quality, with the ability to review code, assess technical tradeoffs, and guide teams toward sound implementation decisions. This will include both directpeopleleadership and technical leadership, with accountability for delivery, system reliability, and team health.You’lltranslate ambiguity into clarity, balancing long-term platform integrity with iterative progress, while working closely across engineering and partner functions. Impact is measured not only by the systems your teams deliver, but by the technical standards you uphold, the decisions you make under uncertainty, and the environment youcreate forengineers to learn, experiment, and do their best work.
In this role, you will:
Provide Technical Leadership to the Team(40%)
Sort through options for solutioning,leveragingyour own technicalexpertise.
With senior engineers on the team, in partnership with the product owner and designer, craft and execute atechnology strategy to deliver on the product roadmap.
Continue to learn andstay currentwith the state of software engineering, sharing that knowledge within the team to support best practices.
Review and occasionally write code yourself using preferred technologiesincluding TypeScript, React, NodeJS.
Manage scope and actively work against developing technical debt.
Monitor and manage costs, working with internal resources tooptimizethe cost and performance of applications.
Approach every feature with a security-sensitive perspective.
Build a highly engaged, and high-performing team (30%)
Cultivate norms that supportstrong communication, a positive working culture, and an engaged team.
Define ceremonies that support your high-performing Agile team, while maximizing productive work time.
Actively cultivate the superpowers of team members and leverage these to develop products.
Support diversity and inclusion from the perspectives of demographics, skills, and experience.
Manage work culture to ensure the mission and operating principles ofCollegeBoard are consistently recognized andutilizedto promote a productive and fair work environment.
Support and invest in the growth of your team members.
Interface with business partners and technology colleagues (30%):
Develop deep understanding of the business needs your team serves to provide thought leadership and consistent messaging around the work of the team.
Develop strong working relationships with business and product partners to understand the nuances of the complex systems supported by your product.
Manage scope and workload, working with product owners to deliver the most valuable work first.
Provide subject matterexpertiseto other teams andsupport withresources from your own team asappropriate.
About you, youhave:
7 years’experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of life-cycle activities to meet the requirements for highly secure, data-heavy applications.
Provenexpertisedelivering web-based products or platform-level features in cloud-firstenvironmentusing modern development tools.
Written and reviewed production code using preferred tec
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