Western Governors University

Staff Software Engineer- Full-Stack Python and React

Western Governors University
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2 hours ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$161k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Act as a software engineering expert and technical consultant across multiple teams and application areas.
  • Establish and maintain well-engineered architecture, engineering practices, system administration processes, and technical standards.
  • Identify systemic issues, technical risks, dependencies, and multiple solution options, and recommend preferred approaches.
  • Mentor engineers and provide formal and informal technical direction to improve team effectiveness and cohesion.
  • Improve platform availability, operational excellence, scalability, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and cost effectiveness in a public cloud environment.
  • Plan and execute testing strategies that balance software quality, implementation time, and cost.
  • Evaluate functional and non-functional requirements and work with product owners to address deficiencies and alternatives.
  • Partner with Operations to solve platform problems at the system level and support adoption of technical and process changes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience performing the essential job functions.
  • 10 years of software development experience.
  • Experience with React 18 and building custom component libraries and conducting accessibility auditing.
  • Experience with Python, preferably using Django and Django REST Framework.
  • Experience with AWS; a Solutions Architect certification is preferred.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, SQL, and AWS services.
  • Expert understanding of software development processes, algorithms, complexity, security, design methodologies, system decomposition, design patterns, fault tolerance, software development life cycle models, and software as a service.
  • Ability to design systems that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements and operate at scale in public cloud environments.
  • Strong communication, mentoring, technical leadership, risk management, problem-solving, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 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-level contact-center solutions.

Benefits

  • Full-time regular position with 40 standard weekly hours and eligibility for bonuses.
  • Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, mental healthcare, health savings account, and flexible spending account benefits.
  • Basic and voluntary life insurance, disability coverage, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity supplemental coverage.
  • 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 attendance at typically one or two company summits per year and possible conferences or visits to company locations.
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