Senior Software Engineer - Academy
Western Governors University2 days ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USASenior
Base Salary
$144k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions for critical business and student-facing capabilities.
- Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into maintainable software.
- Influence architecture, technical strategy, design patterns, security practices, and fault-tolerant system design.
- Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and scalability concerns and propose practical solutions.
- Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, pair programming, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
- Document systems and share knowledge through technical presentations and engineering best practices.
- Design and operate reliable cloud-native systems in partnership with DevOps and Operations teams.
- Lead root cause analysis and support recovery during production incidents.
- Drive automation, quality-focused development, developer productivity, platform health, and engineering process improvements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to team effectiveness and technical capability growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, algorithms, software architecture, testing, security, and distributed systems.
- Experience building and supporting web applications, APIs, enterprise software solutions, RESTful services, and service-oriented architectures.
- Proficiency in Java or another modern object-oriented programming language.
- Experience with Python, JavaScript services, databases, third-party integrations, and systems integration.
- Demonstrated success delivering production software from design through deployment and support.
- Experience designing and operating applications in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- Knowledge of scalability, resiliency, observability, performance optimization, and data-driven engineering.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without relying on authority.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a related field; legacy application and architecture modernization; Python; JavaScript; Nest.js; SQL; ServiceNow; Git; Jira; EDA; Confluent, Kafka, or Pulsar; Backend-for-Frontend patterns; Mesh of Mesh; Spec Driven Development with Kiro; Behavior Driven Development; enterprise and legacy platform integration; Agile/Scrum; AWS cloud-native development and migration; and relevant technical certifications.
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.
- Basic and voluntary life insurance, disability coverage, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, legal, and identity theft coverage.
- Retirement savings plan and wellbeing program.
- Discounted WGU tuition.
- Flexible paid time off, flexible paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves 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.
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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.