Engineering Director

College Board; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

College Board seeks an Engineering Director for Create Core to lead the platform team at the heart of the authoring ecosystem. You will partner with Product to define the roadmap, manage a small team of engineers, and ensure the platform remains coherent and scalable.

You will shape architecture, champion accessibility, and drive delivery while aligning with product and design leadership on future platform directions. This is a remote role with in-office hybrid options.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in Agile software application development.
• Proven expertise delivering web-based products or platform-level features in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Leadership & Delivery: set goals, prioritize Core roadmap, and govern platform as a product.
• Guide architecture of shared libraries and services, ensuring developer experience and accessibility.
• Build a highly engaged, high-performing team through effective ceremonies, culture, and growth.
• Collaborate with Product, Principal Engineer, and architects on strategy and platform boundaries.

Skills

Agile software development

Web-based products

Cloud environments

Job description

Engineering Director — College Board Technology

Location: this is a remote role. Candidates who live near College Board offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). This is a full-time position.

About Technology 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. We combine modern, cloud-native engineering practices with years of platform modernization, security hardening, and large-scale digital delivery.

About the Team

Create is a group of cross-functional teams responsible for building and evolving how educators author tasks and assessments. Create Core is the platform team within Create that builds the shared foundations the authoring applications are made from: a rich text editing library, canonical item and task data models, a centralized metadata service, and APIs/interfaces for interacting with assessment data. Core's users are other engineering teams, and its repositories run as an internal open-source project.

About the Opportunity

As Engineering Director, Create Core, you will lead the platform team at the center of College Board's authoring ecosystem. This is direct team leadership: you will manage a small group of experienced engineers, work closely with Product to define the roadmap, and be accountable for team health, delivery, and the long-term coherence of the platform. You will partner closely with the domain's Principal Engineer on technical strategy, with application engineering directors on adoption and boundaries, and with product and design leaders on where the platform goes next.

Platform Leadership & Delivery (40%)

• Lead the Create Core team directly, setting clear goals and expectations while enabling engineers to own execution.
• Work in close partnership with Product and application teams to prioritize the Core roadmap.
• Run the platform as a product: gather needs from consuming teams, make deliberate build/decline decisions, and communicate direction.
• Act as the point of decision for platform scope, adoption sequencing, and cross-team trade-offs.

Technical Leadership & Quality (30%)

• Guide the architecture of shared libraries and services.
• Hold a high bar for developer experience: documentation, paved paths, reference implementations, and local-first tooling.
• Ensure accessibility is built into the foundations, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA across Core components with assistive-technology testing in the definition of done.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer and architects to evolve data models, editor architecture, and platform boundaries.

Build a Highly Engaged, High-Performing Team (30%)

• Cultivate norms that support strong communication, a positive working culture, and an engaged team.
• Define ceremonies that support your high-performing Agile team while maximizing productive work time.
• Support diversity and inclusion from the perspectives of demographics, skills, and experience.
• Support and invest in the growth of your team members.

About You

• 7+ years' experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques across a broad range of life-cycle activities.
• Proven expertise delivering web-based products or platform-level features in cloud environments.