# Associate Software Engineer

**Company**: WGU
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,800.00 - $110,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Join a team helping shape the future of higher education through technology and AI at WGU. As an Associate Software Engineer, you will work alongside experienced full-stack engineers to design, build, test, and support applications that improve the student experience and advance WGU's mission.

Responsibilities:

- Assist in the design, development, testing, implementation, and support of software applications and services.

- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and well-tested code with guidance from senior engineers.

- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and working software.

- Participate in code reviews, testing activities, and continuous improvement efforts.

- Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps in requirements and communicate them appropriately.

- Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and stakeholders across the organisation.

- Support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of web applications and backend services.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

- Recent graduate or early-career software engineer with a strong foundation in software development principles.

- Practical experience with web services development.

- Interest in full-stack development and learning new technologies, including Salesforce technologies.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with teammates and stakeholders.

- Curiosity, emotional intelligence, and a growth mindset.

- Ability to work successfully in both self-directed and team-based environments.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary range: $73,800.00 - $110,700.00

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Web Services Development
- Communication Skills

### Nice to have
- Java
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- Vue.js
- Agile Development Practices
- Git
- Jira
- Cloud-Native Technologies
- AI-Assisted Development Tools

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