# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: WGU
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

At WGU, technology powers meaningful outcomes for students, faculty, and staff. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a highly influential technical leader, partnering across teams to solve complex challenges, shape engineering strategy, and drive the delivery of scalable, reliable solutions that advance the university's mission.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a technical expert across multiple areas of software engineering, providing leadership, guidance, and architectural direction.

- Drive the adoption of engineering best practices, well-engineered solutions, and operational excellence across teams.

- Lead and influence major initiatives involving software architecture, engineering processes, and system administration.

- Partner across multiple teams to identify and solve critical technical challenges, risks, and dependencies.

- Mentor and develop engineers through formal and informal coaching, technical leadership, and collaborative problem solving.

- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance for students, faculty, and staff.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and innovative approaches that can improve university platforms, engineering efficiency, and business outcomes.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

- 10 years of experience in software development; pioneering new approaches and technologies in engineering.

- Experience in web-based applications and web services such as Java, REST, SQL, GIT, and other technologies, including experience integrating third-party products.

- Expert understanding of software development practices including planning, measurement, coding, testing, reuse, tools, abstraction, algorithms and complexity, security, and system design.

- Ability to design and implement software solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, including scalability, security, fault tolerance, and maintainability.

- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and the practical application of different delivery models.

- Experience designing and operating software in public cloud environments with a focus on scale, reliability, cost optimization, and performance metrics.

- Outstanding communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, present solutions, and manage expectations effectively.

- Ability to identify, mitigate, and proactively manage technical risks and dependencies.

- Demonstrated ability to make teams stronger, more collaborative, and more effective.

- Ability to demonstrate a sense of urgency when solving complex technical problems.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- REST
- SQL
- GIT
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Cloud Computing

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science
- Technical experience with GIT, SQL, Spring, Spring Boot, Java, Angular 2 or later, and AWS services
- Experience with Salesforce development lifecycle techniques and Salesforce governor limits

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