Software Engineer II — Build a Modern EdTech Platform

WGU; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Medical, dental, vision, telehealth &

Wellbeing program

Tuition discount

Flexible PTO and sick time

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Western Governors University (WGU) in Salt Lake City, UT, is seeking a Software Engineer II to help build the next generation of our online, competency-based platform. You’ll work with a modern stack and collaborate across product, architecture, and business teams to deliver features that impact students and faculty.

You’ll own features end to end, design scalable services, and participate in architecture transformation, AI-assisted development, testing, and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and supporting production web applications and APIs.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own features across our platform, working alongside engineers, architects, and business partners to deliver solutions that directly impact students, faculty, and the broader educational experience.
• Own features end to end, from design through deployment and production support, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Contribute to our architecture transformation by building microservices, event-driven services, and BFF layers.
• Design and work with modern data layers, including PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB.
• Partner with product, architecture, and business teams to understand objectives and translate requirements into sound technical solutions.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
• Apply AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery, and integrate AI/ML services into applications to create smarter, more capable platform experiences.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, using observability tooling to improve service stability and the customer experience.
• Build quality in through thoughtful testing, automation, and data-driven decision making.
• Raise risks and dependencies early so the team can address them before they affect delivery.
• Share knowledge with teammates and support newer engineers through pairing and code review.

Skills

Web apps & APIs

SQL

Git workflows

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Angular

Node.js

NestJS

Python

PostgreSQL

YugabyteDB

Job description

Western Governors University (WGU) in Salt Lake City, UT, is seeking a Software Engineer II to help build the next generation of our online, competency-based platform. You’ll work with a modern stack and collaborate across product, architecture, and business teams to deliver features that impact students and faculty.

You’ll own features end to end, design scalable services, and participate in architecture transformation, AI-assisted development, testing, and observability.