Western Governors University

Western Governors University

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Western Governors University is a nonprofit, accredited online university offering competency-based bachelor’s and master’s degree programs for working adults in business, IT, teaching, and healthcare. It operates a tuition-based model with flat-rate terms that let students advance as they demonstrate proficiency. Founded in 1997 by 19 U.S. governors and based in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, WGU serves students nationwide through fully remote instruction and support.

Open Positions at Western Governors University

11 open positions

Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+
$161k - $250k/yr

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of WGU’s AI-powered student portal assistant. You’ll build its retrieval, inference, security, evaluation, and full-stack foundations while mentoring engineers and operating the system in production.

AngularAWSC#GoJavaNode.js+4 more
7 days ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USASenior
$144k - $223k/yr

Senior Software Engineer building scalable, cloud-native full-stack applications and services that support WGU’s student-facing systems. The role spans Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/Node.js, Angular, AWS, operational reliability, technical leadership, and mentoring.

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8 days ago
Raleigh, NC, USASenior
$144k - $223k/yr

Senior Software Engineer building scalable, secure, and high-performing full-stack platforms that support higher education and student success. The role offers significant architectural influence, technical leadership, mentorship, and opportunities to work on cloud modernization, integrations, and AI/ML-powered features.

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9 days ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
$161k - $250k/yr

Lead cloud engineering for scalable, reliable platforms that support Craft Education’s apprenticeship and workforce-learning products. This Nashville-based staff role focuses on AWS architecture, Apache Spark optimization, infrastructure automation, and cloud operations.

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10 days ago
Raleigh, NC, USAStaff+
$202k - $313k/yr

WGU is seeking a Principal AI Platform Operations Engineer to define the organization’s long-term AI operations strategy and lead enterprise-scale deployment, reliability, governance, and platform initiatives. This highest-level technical IC role advises executives, shapes engineering standards, develops talent, and represents WGU externally.

Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+
$161k - $250k/yr

Staff Software Engineer building and guiding full-stack Python and React solutions for WGU’s online higher-education platform. The role combines hands-on architecture, cross-team technical leadership, operational excellence, mentoring, and large-scale platform improvement.

14 days ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USAMid Level
$119k - $179k/yr

Build and evolve scalable platform software that supports WGU’s higher-education mission, using modern full-stack technologies and cloud-native practices. This in-office role offers architectural influence, technical leadership, and opportunities to mentor engineers while solving complex enterprise challenges.

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29 days ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+
$161k - $250k/yr

Lead the evolution of WGU’s Salesforce ecosystem as a Staff Software Engineer, delivering scalable integrations, automation, security, and platform capabilities that support students and enterprise operations. This high-impact technical leadership role combines hands-on engineering, architecture implementation, cross-team standards, and mentoring without formal people-management responsibility.

C#Java.NETSpring Boot
1 month ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USAMid Level
$119k - $179k/yr

Build and evolve scalable, secure software platforms that directly support WGU students, faculty, and business operations. This full-time, in-office role offers architectural influence, technical leadership, mentoring, and work across modern full-stack, cloud, data, and AI-enabled technologies.

AngularApache KafkaAWSDjangoDockerGit+5 more
1 month ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USASenior
$144k - $223k/yr

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, cloud-native software that supports WGU’s student-facing and business capabilities. The role provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and helps shape architecture and engineering practices for mission-driven education products.

1 month ago

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