Lead Engineer, Secure Client Engineering

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Secure Client Engineering is part of Product Security and takes on some of the toughest security challenges in Bluebook, College Board's digital assessment application. Our team designs and builds the protections that help keep Bluebook secure and resilient across macOS, iPad, Windows, and ChromeOS. We are a small, deeply collaborative group of poly-skilled engineers who solve hard problems together, write production code, and share ownership of both the work and the outcome. Through ensemble programming, also known as mob programming, we bring a hands-on, high-trust approach to engineering that values curiosity, craftsmanship, and continuous learning. As a Lead Engineer on the Secure Client Engineering team, you will play a hands-on role in protecting the integrity of Bluebook, the application students rely on for digital assessments across Windows, macOS, iPad, and ChromeOS. You'll provide technical leadership by guiding architecture and design decisions, setting a high bar for engineering quality, and mentoring teammates, while remaining deeply involved in implementation. You'll work close to the operating system, leveraging native platform capabilities to tackle complex, low-level challenges at the intersection of software engineering and security. This role is built for engineers who thrive on hard problems without clear answers, combining deep technical expertise with sound judgment to design resilient client-side protections in an ever-evolving landscape. Working within a small, highly skilled team, you'll influence technical direction, elevate engineering practices, and contribute directly to building robust, production-grade solutions. If you're motivated by mission-driven work, technical depth, and leading through hands-on impact, this is a chance to shape how secure software is built. In this role, you will: Design & Implementation ( 7 0 %) Collaborate daily with other engineers on the team using mob programming to solve complex technical problems through software engineering while guiding approaches and unblocking the team. Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration across teams with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services. Use your deep understanding of the applications within the Digital Assessment Platform to drive the design and implement ation of novel solutions to security challenges in desktop and mobile applications, across Windows, MacOS, iOS, and ChromeOS. Lead by example in writing code for both native and web environments, building component-based, performant, stable, and secure solutions with a focus on lower-level code that interfaces with the native operating system. Understand new product requirements and lead the decompos ition of the work into well-defined functional changes for verification. Team Operations & Success ( 30 %) Drive continuous improvement of the team's engineering practices, efficiency, speed, and quality. Lead and influence discussions on architecture, testing strategies, developer experience, security, performance, and resilience. Lead and contribute to code and design reviews, setting quality standards and providing actionable feedback to elevate the team. Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production issues, ensuring root causes are understood and addressed. Champion and evolve development standards and security policies, ensuring consistent adoption across the team. Drive the adoption of AI-augmented and agentic engineering practices, establishing effective patterns for rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based within the team's collaborative engineering model. Continuously develop and share skills needed to thrive in a poly-skilled, increasingly AI-native engineering environment. Evaluate and introduce new methods and tools, guiding adoption to improve team effectiveness in a post-agile environment. About you, you have : 8 + years of production level software development experience , with a significant portion spent on native desktop or platform-level applications , owning complex systems and guiding the entire lifecycle of features, including design, development, documentation, and deployment. Deep, hands-on experience with native Windows development, including working directly with lower level operating system APIs, memory, processes, and/or kernel-level interfaces - e xperience on macOS, iOS, or ChromeOS is a plus Strong proficiency in C++ for production systems, including experience with lower-level Windows development such as Win32 APIs, kernel-mode components, or driver development. Proficiency in reviewing

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Lead Engineer, Secure Client Engineering College Board - Technology - Platform Security Location: 1) This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) Type: This is a full-time position

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