Software Engineer II — Microservices, AI, & Modern Stack

Western Governors University; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 119,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Medical, dental, vision

Health savings account

Tuition assistance

Flexible paid time off

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Western Governors University is hiring a Software Engineer II to contribute in a mid-career role at our Salt Lake City campus. You’ll design, build, and improve scalable software within a modern stack, and help drive the architecture transformation toward microservices and data mesh.

Join a mission-driven team delivering high impact in online higher education. You will own features end to end, work with product and architects, and apply AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery

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 support scalable, secure, and high-performing software using a modern full-stack toolset: Angular on the front end, and Node.js, NestJS, and Python on the back end.
• 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

5+ years software engineering

Production web apps & APIs

Relational databases & SQL

Git workflows & automated testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Angular

Node.js

NestJS

Python

PostgreSQL

YugabyteDB

Hasura

Kafka/Pulsar

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Western Governors University is hiring a Software Engineer II to contribute in a mid-career role at our Salt Lake City campus. You’ll design, build, and improve scalable software within a modern stack, and help drive the architecture transformation toward microservices and data mesh.

Join a mission-driven team delivering high impact in online higher education. You will own features end to end, work with product and architects, and apply AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery