# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: WGU
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,700.00 - $222,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at WGU, you will bring deep technical expertise, strong engineering judgment, and a collaborative mindset to building and improving scalable software solutions. You will serve as a technical leader and mentor while partnering across teams to solve complex problems, manage technical risk, and strengthen the systems that support the university education platform.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a technical expert and trusted resource in assigned areas of software engineering, mentoring junior engineers and helping the team grow its capabilities.

- Lead or consult for engineering teams, translating functional, non-functional, and implied requirements into thoughtful designs and high-quality code.

- Take accountability for service quality and successful project delivery, balancing scope, budget, timelines, reliability, and cost.

- Identify technical risks, dependencies, gaps, and potential solutions early, while helping other engineers strengthen their approach to risk management.

- Partner effectively across engineering, Operations, and other disciplines to troubleshoot complex system issues, minimize time to restore services, and improve system performance.

- Share technical knowledge through mentoring, presentations, documentation, and collaborative problem-solving while helping identify opportunities for team improvement.

- Design and execute pragmatic testing strategies that balance quality, delivery speed, cost, security, scale, reliability, and fault tolerance.

Requirements:

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

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

- Experience in web-based applications and web services using Java, REST, ServiceNow, and other web technologies, including experience interfacing with databases, and integrating third-party products with existing infrastructure.

- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and Aurora, along with non-SQL databases.

- Strong understanding of software development practices, including planning, coding, testing, security, algorithms and complexity, abstraction, reuse, and software development lifecycle models.

- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and cost-conscious software systems, including SaaS and public cloud environments.

- Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to identify risks, propose solutions, mentor others, and collaborate effectively across teams.

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
- ServiceNow
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Aurora
- Software Development Lifecycle Models

### Nice to have
- Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science
- IntelliJ/VS Code
- JIRA
- Git
- Agile/Scrum development
- Java or a similar object-oriented language
- J2EE
- Java EE
- JavaScript
- SQL
- IDM/OSSO
- Hibernate/Seam
- Banner
- legacy-system integration
- cloud-native development
- AWS

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