Staff Software Engineer - Open Source

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.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse 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:
 

Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

This engineering team is focused on open-source software, particularly the Open edX software. Open edX is a learning management system, content management system, course authoring tool, and more that provides a platform to over 55 million learners worldwide. Our team aims to improve the performance and accessibility of this platform and its peripheral functions. We seek highly skilled engineers who are willing to contribute advanced innovation to online education.

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

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field
• 9+ years of professional experience in React and/or Python and Django, including building enterprise-grade applications.
• Experience in web-based applications and web services such as React and/or Python and Django,  Salesforce, Apex, Java, REST, SQL, GIT, and other technologies, including experience integrating third-party products
• Demonstrated ability to establish innovative system frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to implement and manage an API Framework

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in a related field
• Proven experience in the following areas: Amazon Web Services (AWS), GIT, SQL, Spring, Spring boot, Java, Angular 2 or later, and AWS Services
• Knowledge and experience with salesforce development lifecycle techniques and salesforce governor limits.
• Strong background in cloud-based telephony, CTI, SIP/VoIP phones and protocols, QoS, IVRs, and call recording
• Experience architecting, implemen