Staff Software Engineer
Western Governors University3 days ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as an expert in multiple areas of software engineering and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Ensure high-quality, well-engineered architecture and accountability for services supporting assigned projects.
- Identify and resolve systemic issues, technical risks, dependencies, and critical platform problems.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to team effectiveness through formal and informal guidance.
- Advise Portfolio or Ed Tech planning and recommend solutions to technical problems.
- Improve operational excellence, platform availability, system reliability, quality, and cost effectiveness.
- Apply testing strategies and evaluate functional and non-functional requirements.
- Partner with Operations and product owners to solve platform problems and address requirements deficiencies.
- Identify innovative technologies and ideas that improve the university education platform and engineering efficiency.
- Support change management, risk mitigation, communication, and cross-team collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 10 years of software development experience, including pioneering new engineering approaches and technologies.
- Experience with web-based applications and web services such as Java, REST, SQL, and Git.
- Experience integrating third-party products.
- Expert understanding of software development processes, design, algorithms, complexity, security, testing, reuse, and software tools.
- Ability to design scalable, reliable, cost-effective systems in a public cloud environment.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Preferred technical experience with Git, SQL, Spring, Spring Boot, Java, Angular 2 or later, and AWS services.
- Preferred experience with Salesforce development lifecycle techniques and Salesforce governor limits.
- Preferred experience with cloud-based telephony, CTI, SIP/VoIP phones and protocols, QoS, IVRs, call recording, and enterprise contact center solutions.
- Experience with distance education and distance learning students and technical certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time regular position with 40 standard weekly hours and bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, mental healthcare, health savings account, and flexible spending account benefits.
- Life insurance, disability coverage, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, legal, and identity theft coverage.
- Retirement savings plan, wellbeing program, and discounted WGU tuition.
- Flexible paid time off, flexible paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leave including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
- Occasional travel of up to 20%, including company summits, conferences, company-location visits, and other business events.
About Western Governors University
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.