Staff Software Engineer

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 Craft Education as the next step in your career.

 

Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all.  

 

At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs.  Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs.  Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits.

 

Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs.  We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them.  

 

If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you.  At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development.  We couldn’t be more excited to advance this work as a team of innovative, collaborative and mission-oriented professionals - we hope you’ll consider joining us.

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 411

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

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Lead in the building of cutting-edge applications and services to increase and improve the student experience.
• Exemplify a mastery of coding excellence and software quality, mentoring others and pioneering new standards and architectural foundations.
• Foster and utilize innovative approaches to problems and functionality for all key stakeholders.
• Own technologies focusing on student success and scalability while supporting student-focused user experience.
• Collaborate with developers, designers, testing, and product management to develop features and innovative approaches to applications and features.
• May mentor/advise engineering teams on new languages and technologies; act as a resident expert when needed.
• Establish a balance between strategic planning and initiatives with development, communication, troubleshooting, and problem solving.
• Lead in the prototyping and development of new technology and framework, improving the student experience.
• Identify system redundancies and inefficiencies, proposing innovative and cost-effective solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects.
• Work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to establish innovative system frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to implement and manage an API Framework.

​Organizational or Student Impact:

• Recommends and implements changes in technical/business processes; identifies areas for improvement.
• Helps lead/coordinate extremely complex technical projects and programs and leads development and implementation of innovative solutions for specialized technical issues.
• Works proactively; identifies and helps prevent/ solve problems that may cross disciplines.
• Fully understands and quantifies project risks with impact. Identifies, generates, and implements innovative solutions.

Problem Solving & Decision Making:

• This individual accomplishes goals and objectives independently.
• Builds and leads teams, influencing decisions and results.