Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
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. The Senior Software Engineer designs, builds, and delivers scalable, high-quality software systems across the full stack. This role contributes to modern web applications and services, working across frontend, backend, and APIs to deliver end-to-end solutions. This engineer partners closely with product, design, and engineering teams to solve complex problems, drive technical direction, and improve system performance, reliability, and user experience. They are comfortable working across multiple languages and frameworks — primarily Java/Spring Boot and TypeScript/Node.js with Angular on the frontend — building cloud-native, event-driven services on AWS. They own the operational health of student-facing systems, handle student data responsibly (FERPA), mentor engineers, and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 6+ years of experience building and delivering full-stack applications
- Experience developing web applications and APIs using modern languages (e.g., Java, TypeScript/Node.js, JavaScript)
- Experience with frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular or similar)
- Experience working with service-based or modular architectures
- Experience contributing to or leading system design decisions
- Hands-on experience building and operating services on AWS (Fargate/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3).
- Experience with containerized microservices (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with event-driven architecture or messaging (Kafka or similar).
Nice To Haves
- Experience working across multiple programming languages and frameworks in a full-stack environment
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or Node.js
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
- Experience with observability and incident response using Dynatrace and CloudWatch.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Experience mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead
- Experience with API design and system integration
- Familiarity with tools such as GitHub, JIRA, VS Code, IntelliJ
- Experience with SQL and data modeling
- Experience with NestJS and the Angular ecosystem (NgRx, Nx).
- Experience with Kubernetes/Argo and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience with event streaming (Kafka/Confluent, schema registry).
- Experience with content/forms platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Form.io, or FormAssembly (for the Marketing/Pre-Enrollment team).
- Experience with accessibility testing (axe-core, Playwright/Cypress).
- Experience with trunk-based development and modern branching/release strategies.
Responsibilities
- Designs, builds, and delivers scalable, high-quality software systems across the full stack.
- Contributes to modern web applications and services, working across frontend, backend, and APIs to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Partners closely with product, design, and engineering teams to solve complex problems, drive technical direction, and improve system performance, reliability, and user experience.
- Owns the operational health of student-facing systems, handle student data responsibly (FERPA), mentor engineers, and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
- Participates in on-call rotation and acts as the escalation point for complex production incidents; owns availability, MTTR, and change-success outcomes for the team's services.
- Leads migrations and modernization within the domain (framework/library upgrades, service re-platforming, database changes) and manages the team's technical-debt landscape.
- Challenges incomplete, conflicting, or infeasible requirements and drives root-cause analysis rather than fixing symptoms.
- Uses AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly, within data-handling and security policies.
- Leads troubleshooting and resolution of production incidents, including on-call response, and drives post-incident improvements that prevent recurrence.
- Owns the quality, performance, reliability, and accessibility (WCAG/ADA) of student-facing systems within their domain.
- Applies secure-coding practices (OWASP), authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), and FERPA/student-data handling.
- Ensures accessibility (WCAG/ADA) in student-facing applications.
- Owns operational health: on-call participation, incident response, and ownership of availability/MTTR/change-success metrics.
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 with no need for accrual
- flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
