Senior Software Engineer

Job Type: Full time

Job Number: JR-025942

Location: Salt Lake City,
UT

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you’re committed to working hard
to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

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workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received
praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping
students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into
account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience
and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual
to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of
each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 410 Pay Range: $143,700.00 – $222,700.00

Job
Description

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the research, design, development, analysis, testing, and implementation
of software operating or application systems. They communicate project information to client, project manager, or other design personnel
working on projects. They maintain good working relationships with clients and staff. They write and maintains complete documentation. They
support team members and ensures established goals and deadlines are met. They keep management informed of status and significant
problems.

Position Summary
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment,
operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise software solutions that support the university’s strategic objectives. This role serves
as a senior technical contributor and trusted advisor within engineering teams, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance,
mentorship, and operational excellence.
The Senior Software Engineer partners with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and
Business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions. This individual demonstrates ownership of software
throughout its lifecycle, including production support, incident response, reliability engineering, and modernization
initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

• Acts as a technical leader and subject matter expert
  within assigned domains.
• Provides architectural guidance and technical direction to engineering teams.
• Leads design reviews,
  code reviews, and technical decision-making activities.
• Mentors and coaches engineers through pair programming, knowledge sharing,
  and technical leadership.
• Promotes engineering excellence through standards, best practices, and continuous improvement
  initiatives.
• Software Design & Development: Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains enterprise-grade software
  solutions.
• Translates functional and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Evaluates architectural
  trade-offs related to performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and cost.
• Identifies gaps, risks, and
  dependencies early and proposes practical solutions.
• Contributes to long-term technology strategy and modernization
  efforts.
• Cloud-Native Engineering
• Designs and develops cloud-native applications and services using AWS and modern cloud
  technologies.
• Implements scalable microservices and API-first architectures.
• Leverages event-driven architecture patterns
  and messaging platforms to support distributed systems.
• Contributes to infrastructure automation and cloud governance
  practices.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability
• Owns production health and operational readiness for assigned services and
  applications.
• Participates in incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and service restoration
  activities.
• Partners with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, and Operations teams to improve system
  resilience.
• Identifies recurring operational issues and drives permanent corrective actions.
• Establishes monitoring,
  alerting, and observability practices that proactively identify issues before customer impact occurs.
• DevOps & Continuous
  Delivery
• Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, reliable, and repeatable software deployments.
• Automates
  build, testing, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Contributes to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives and environment
  standardization.
• Promotes continuous integration and continuous delivery best practices.
• Observability & Performance
  Engineering
• Defines and implements Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational
  dashboards.
• Utilizes telemetry, logs, traces, and metrics to improve system performance and reliability.
• Establishes
  meaningful alerting strategies that reduce noise while improving responsiveness.
• Uses operational metrics and engineering KPIs to
  guide decision-making.
• Security & Compliance
• Applies secure coding practices throughout the software development
  lifecycle.
• Participates in threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability remediation activities.
• Ensures solutions
  comply with organizational security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Promotes a security-first mindset across engineering
  teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborates effectively with Product Managers, Architects, QA Engineers, Security
  Engineers, Infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Communicates technical concepts effectively to both technical and
  non-technical audiences.
• Presents solutions, trade-offs, recommendations, and risks clearly.
• Builds strong partnerships
  across teams and organizational boundaries.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
• Identifies opportunities to improve
  engineering productivity, platform reliability, and customer experience.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and industry trends for
  potential adoption.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives through automation, simplification, and
  modernization.
• Leverages AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development efficiency and software quality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a
  related field.
• Equivalent professional experience may be substituted for educational requirements at the discretion of the hiring
  manager
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting
  enterprise applications.
• Experience with modern software development practices and Agile methodologies.
• Experience building
  and consuming RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience integrating
  enterprise applications and third-party platforms.
• Experience supporting production systems and participating in incident response
  activities.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
• Technical Skills
• Strong experience
  with:
• Java (Java 17+ preferred)
• Angular, React or Vue frameworks
• Spring Boot
• REST APIs
• SQL and
  database design
• Object-oriented design principles
• Distributed systems
• Microservices architecture
• Git and
  source control management
• Automated testing frameworks
• Experience with:
• AWS cloud services
• Containerization
  and orchestration technologies
• Event-driven architectures
• Messaging technologies such as Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge,
  RabbitMQ, or equivalent
• CI/CD pipelines-
• Infrastructure as Code

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience with AWS cloud-native development
  and modernization initiatives.
• Experience migrating legacy applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with
  Salesforce integrations and enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or
  similar observability platforms.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, or
  CloudFormation.
• Experience with higher education technology platforms.
• Experience establishing SLOs, operational dashboards,
  and reliability practices.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or similar
  technologies.

Leadership Expectations

• A successful Senior Software Engineer:
• Demonstrates ownership
  and accountability.
• Balances technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.
• Drives engineering best practices across
  teams.
• Mentors and develops less experienced engineers.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders at all
  levels.
• Thinks strategically while delivering tactically.
• Leads through influence rather than formal
  authority.
• Promotes a culture of reliability, quality, security, and continuous improvement.

Position & Application
Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular
position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; 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; and 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.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need
to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional
Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not
all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or
interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal
Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as
required by law.

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