Senior Full Stack Engineer at College Board · Remote (United States)
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AWS
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Agile
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CI/CD
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Node.js
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3+ years of experience
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Design and Development (60%)
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Translate product requirements into well-structured, testable components, driving features from concept to production
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Prototype and validate new ideas quickly while keeping codebases clean and extensible
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Contribute to shared patterns, components, and documentation to improve consistency and reuse
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Optimize application performance, reliability, and security
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Team Operations & Success (30%)
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Security is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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