Engineering Manager – Temp to Hire

Client: College Board • Team: Accommodations Management • Location: Fully Remote (EST preferred; CST maximum) • Contract: Temp to Hire

About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who combines strong hands-on software engineering skills with people leadership experience. The ideal candidate will have a strong development background in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Node.js, and AWS, while also having experience managing and mentoring engineering teams. This person will lead a team of approximately 5–8 engineers, remain hands-on with architecture and coding, and partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and other enterprise teams.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership (30%)
  • Manage and mentor a team of 5–8 software engineers.
  • Provide coaching, feedback, and career development.
  • Promote ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Support team engagement and performance management.
• Technical Leadership & Development (50%)
  • Remain hands-on with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Node.js, and AWS.
  • Contribute to system architecture, design, development, deployment, and production support.
  • Build scalable, secure, resilient, and observable applications.
  • Establish CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and modern engineering practices.
  • Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, and other enterprise teams.
  • Support adoption of AI/ML capabilities where appropriate.
• Cross-Functional Leadership (20%)
  • Partner with Product Owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Manage cross-team dependencies.
  • Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and project progress.
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.

Requirements

• 6–8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of engineering management/team leadership experience.
• Strong hands-on TypeScript/JavaScript development.
• Strong React experience.
• Strong Node.js experience.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Distributed systems and API experience.
• Event-driven architecture experience.
• CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and security practices.
• System design and architecture experience.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with workflow-driven or compliance-sensitive applications.
• Case management or decisioning platform experience.
• AI/ML or data-driven product experience.
• Platform architecture and shared services experience.
• Experience working with sensitive user data and security/regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS / Technology Stack

• AWS DynamoDB (4/5 – very comfortable developing with the technology)
• AWS Lambda (4/5)
• AWS S3 (3/5)
• AWS Redshift / Quick Suite (3/5)
• AWS SNS / SQS / EventBridge / Kinesis (4/5)
• JavaScript ES6 / TypeScript (4/5)
• Node.js (4/5)
• React (4/5)
• Agentic AI (2/5)