Software Engineer - Academic Delivery

Staff Software Engineer

Shape the Future of Education Through Technology At WGU, our technology powers life-changing educational experiences for hundreds of thousands of students. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll play a critical role in defining the technical direction, architecture, and engineering practices that enable us to scale, innovate, and deliver exceptional experiences across the university. This is a high-impact technical leadership role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing architecture across multiple teams, and driving engineering excellence.

You'll work on strategic initiatives that span platforms, services, and business domains while helping teams adopt modern engineering practices, cloud technologies, and scalable system designs. You'll be trusted as a technical authority, mentor, and thought leader, helping guide some of the most important technology decisions  you're passionate about building resilient systems, modernizing platforms, improving developer productivity, and mentoring engineers, we'd love to talk with you.

What You'll Do

• Drive Architecture and Technical Strategy
• Solve Complex Technical Challenges
• Elevate Engineering Excellence
• Mentor and Develop Engineers
• Partner Across the Organization

What Makes You Successful

• Technical Expertise
• Engineering Leadership
• Operational Excellence
• Communication & Collaboration

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and delivering complex software systems.
• Experience designing and developing modern web applications, APIs, and services.
• Strong experience with technologies such as Java, Angular version 12+, REST APIs, SQL, Git, and third-party integrations.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale technical initiatives and influencing engineering strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Modern Technology Experience
• Specialized Experience
• Additional Qualifications

Why Engineers Choose WGU

• Influence technical strategy and architecture at enterprise scale.
• Solve meaningful problems that directly impact student success.
• Work with modern cloud technologies and evolving platforms.
• Drive innovation, modernization, and engineering excellence.
• Mentor talented engineers and shape the future of the organization.
• Be part of a mission-driven company where your work creates measurable social impact.

This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year). Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed. Additional travel may be assigned as needed to support business requirements.

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours):
This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; 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; and 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, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply:

If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer:
The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It's not all-inclusive.

Accommodations:
Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.