Description
At Western Governors University (WGU), you're part of a mission-driven organisation that aims to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. As a Staff Software Engineer (Salesforce), you'll lead the evolution of WGU's Salesforce ecosystem, shaping systems that power student experience, enrollment processes, and operational excellence.
Job Summary: The Staff Software Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the technology realm. The position will be required to apply their expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department.
Responsibilities:
- Split time between hands-on engineering/mentoring within the team and serving as the Salesforce architects' implementation partner , turning architecture decisions for emerging platform capabilities into working solutions
- Set automation, integration, security, and DevOps standards adopted across multiple teams
- Own org-wide security posture and compliance-framework decisions for the platform
- Govern enterprise data model decisions , cross-system data contracts, org split/merge strategy, legacy automation tech-debt strategy
- Lead architectural reviews and platform health assessments , governance-limit forecasting, remediation planning
- Mentor engineers and shape technical direction through influence
- Represent the technical perspective to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment on platform strategy
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep Salesforce core engineering expertise , or equivalent depth in another enterprise stack
- Mastery of async Apex / event-driven patterns at a governance level
- Experience designing multi-system integration architecture
- Track record of setting technical standards adopted beyond your own team
- Deep understanding of security architecture and compliance frameworks in a regulated environment
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and shape technical direction through influence
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
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
- Flexible paid sick time
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave