Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager College Board - Technology 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 Te chnology at 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, operating at significant scale 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, operating as 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 The Core Assessment Platform is 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 on continuous 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 role leads 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 to operate at 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 direct people leadership and technical leadership, with accountability for delivery, system reliability, and team health. You'll translate 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 you create for engineers 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, leveraging your own technical expertise. With senior engineers on the team, in partnership with the product owner and designer, craft and execute a technology strategy to deliver on the product roadmap. Continue to learn and stay current with the state of software engineering, sharing that knowledge within the team to support best practices. Review and occasionally write code yourself using preferred technologies including TypeScript, React, NodeJS. Manage scope and actively work against developing technical debt. Monitor and manage costs, working with internal resources to optimize the cost and performance of applications. Approach every feature with a security-sensitive perspective. Build a highly engaged, and high-performing