Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform

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:

Grade:
Technical 410

Pay Range: $ - $Job Description

Job Description Summary At WGU, technology powers opportunity. We're looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer II to join our Web Platform Team and help build the foundations that enable teams across the organization to deliver modern, scalable, and accessible web experiences.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working on platform architecture, developer experience, build systems, and engineering enablement. Rather than focusing on individual product features, you'll build and maintain the shared frameworks, libraries, tooling, and deployment capabilities that power WGU's Angular-based web applications.

You'll work closely with application teams, architects, Dev Ops engineers, and fellow platform engineers to improve development workflows, establish engineering standards, and ensure our front-end ecosystem remains scalable, maintainable, and efficient.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to deepen their expertise in modern web technologies, platform engineering, CI/CD automation, and large-scale enterprise front-end architecture while supporting a mission-driven organization focused on student success.
* This is an in-office position designated to work from our Salt Lake City headquarters.
* What You'll DoDesign, develop, and maintain shared front-end libraries, tooling, and platform services used across multiple engineering teams

Build and support enterprise-scale Angular applications and reusable UI components

Contribute to the architecture and maintenance of Nx monorepos and shared codebases

Improve developer experience through automation, tooling, documentation, and engineering best practices

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions and related Dev Ops tooling

Support deployment and release processes using Octopus Deploy and ArgoCDEstablish and promote front-end standards for code quality, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability

Collaborate with application teams to identify platform needs and reduce development friction

Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and architecture discussions

Troubleshoot and resolve issues involving build systems, deployment pipelines, development tooling, and platform infrastructure

Monitor platform health and continuously improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity

Contribute to an Agile engineering culture focused on continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence

Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience3+ years of professional software engineering experience

Strong experience with Angular and Type Script Experience  building and maintaining reusable component libraries, shared services, or front-end frameworks

Strong understanding of modern…