Staff Angular Front-End Engineer

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Grade: Technical 411

Pay Range: $157,000.00 - $243,400.00

Job Description

Staff Angular Front-end Engineer

Salt Lake City, Utah

About WGU

At Western Governors University, our ambition is to be the world’s most student-centric university; everything we do begins and ends with our students, our alumni, and their families. The success and wellbeing of individuals is at our core. It’s why we exist. It’s why we are committed to changing higher education. This is what it looks like to create pathways of opportunity for everyone: one by one. Our innovative approach and passionate team drive us to deliver exceptional solutions in education. With a commitment to excellence and a culture of collaboration, we strive to be leaders in education technology.

As a Staff Angular Front-end Engineer, you’ll drive a high-impact migration to a cutting-edge monorepo architecture, shaping the future of our front-end platform and influencing engineering practices across the entire organization.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the migration of our front-end applications to a monorepo architecture, ensuring a scalable, maintainable, and high-performing Angular ecosystem.
• Act as the Angular subject matter expert, setting best practices for component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
• Design and implement robust CI pipelines to support continuous integration across multiple teams; partner with DevOps on CI/CD strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, guiding engineers in modern front-end engineering patterns and monorepo best practices.
• Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to identify technical risks, dependencies, and solutions early in the development lifecycle.
• Drive operational excellence, improving code quality, testing strategies, and deployment reliability across the engineering organization.
• Contribute to long-term front-end platform strategy, influencing tooling, coding standards, and architectural decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• Expert-level experience with Angular (v12+) including advanced knowledge of RxJS, NgRx or other state management solutions, and modular application design.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining monorepo architectures (e.g., Nx, Bazel, or similar) for large-scale front-end applications.
• Strong track record of building and maintaining large-scale front-end architectures, including performance and scalability considerations.
• Deep understanding of front-end build systems and CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable tools).
• Skilled in modern TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, and front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-team engineering practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance technical trade-offs and drive consensus across teams, backed by 10+ years in software engineering (or equivalent experience).

Bonus Points if You Have:

• Experience with AWS services or other major cloud platforms to deploy and scale front-end applications.
• Provided hands-on leadership and mentorship to a team of junior engineers, fostering their technical growth and career development.
• Background in distance education or EdTech, understanding the needs of online learners.
• Technical certifications in front-end frameworks,