# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,700.00 - $222,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at Western Governors University (WGU). As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the research, design, development, analysis, testing, and implementation of software operating or application systems. You will communicate project information to clients, project managers, or other design personnel working on projects. You will maintain good working relationships with clients and staff.

**Design and Build High-Impact Software**

- Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions that support critical business and student-facing capabilities.

- Transform business, functional, and non-functional requirements into maintainable, high-quality software.

- Drive technical excellence through thoughtful architecture, design patterns, security best practices, and fault-tolerant system design.

- Continuously improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

**Lead Through Technical Expertise**

- Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor within your engineering team.

- Influence architectural decisions and help define technical strategy across projects and platforms.

- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and scalability concerns early while proposing practical solutions.

- Act as a subject matter expert in one or more domains and collaborate across teams to solve complex challenges.

**Mentor and Elevate the Team**

- Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews, pair programming, architecture discussions, and code reviews.

- Share knowledge through technical presentations, documentation, and engineering best practices.

- Help create an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous learning and growth.

**Build Reliable Cloud-Native Systems**

- Design systems with operational excellence in mind, including observability, resilience, security, and cost optimization.

- Partner closely with DevOps and Operations teams to improve reliability and reduce service disruptions.

- Lead root cause analysis efforts and accelerate recovery during production incidents.

**Drive Continuous Improvement**

- Champion modern engineering practices, automation, and quality-focused development approaches.

- Help evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve developer productivity and platform capabilities.

- Contribute to improvements in engineering processes, platform health, and team effectiveness.

**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.

- Experience building and supporting web applications, APIs, and enterprise software solutions.

- Experience with JavaScript, Nest.js, and Python services, databases, and systems integration.

- Demonstrated success delivering production software from design through deployment and support.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

- Experience modernizing legacy applications and architectures.

- Experience with JavaScript, Nest.js, Python, SQL, ServiceNow, Git, Jira, EDA Confluent/Kafka/Pulsar, Backend-for-Frontend patterns, Mesh of Mesh, Spec Driven Development (Kiro), Familiarity with Behavior Driven Development.

- Experience integrating enterprise and legacy platforms.

- Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams.

- Experience with AWS cloud-native development and cloud migration initiatives.

- Professional technical certifications in cloud, software engineering, or related technologies.

## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- System Design
- Algorithms
- Software Architecture
- Testing
- Security
- Distributed Systems
- JavaScript
- Nest.js
- Python
- RESTful Services
- Databases
- Systems Integration
- Agile Development Practices
- Cloud Environments
- AWS
- Scalability
- Resiliency
- Observability
- Performance Optimization

### Nice to have
- SQL
- ServiceNow
- Git
- Jira
- EDA Confluent/Kafka/Pulsar
- Backend-for-Frontend patterns
- Mesh of Mesh
- Spec Driven Development (Kiro)
- Behavior Driven Development
- AWS Cloud-Native Development
- Cloud Migration Initiatives

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