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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Onsite
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:
Job Description
The Software Engineer II is an early- to mid-career contributor that has a combination of formal education and experience in the software engineering field. They are 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 maintain complete documentation. They support team members and ensure established goals and deadlines are met. They keep management informed of status and significant problems.
Impact Introduction
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 Opportunity
WGU is in the middle of a major architecture transformation. We’re moving from legacy, tightly coupled systems to a modern distributed architecture built on microservices, event-driven architecture (EDA), Backend for Frontend (BFF) services, and service and data mesh. Engineers who join now will help build the platform’s next generation, not just maintain the current one.
What You’ll Do
As a Software Engineer II, you’ll 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.
Why Engineers Love This Role
Minimum Qualifications
Experience in Lieu of Education
Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this position may substitute for formal education requirements. Generally, one year of relevant experience may substitute for one year of education, subject to hiring manager discretion.
Bonus Points
What to Expect
At WGU, our mission drives everything we do, including how we hire. Our interview experience is designed to give qualified candidates the opportunity to demonstrate their technical fundamentals, problem-solving approach, learning ability, communication skills, and potential for growth.
We thoughtfully review every application and invite forward candidates whose experience, capabilities, and potential best align with the role and our mission.
The interview process includes:
The technical interview focuses on how candidates reason through realistic engineering problems. Candidates may be asked to discuss code, APIs, testing, debugging, application design, and tradeoffs, as well as how they use AI and other modern development tools responsibly and effectively. Memorization of framework-specific trivia is not the primary focus.
Work Location
This is a full-time, in-office position requiring five days per week in the Salt Lake City, Utah office. The working arrangement is designed to support close collaboration, mentoring, and connection across the engineering organization.
Visa Sponsorship
While we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, WGU is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Travel Requirement
This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits, typically one or two per year. Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events necessary to support organizational requirements.
Job Description Disclaimer
This position description describes the major duties, responsibilities, requirements, and working conditions associated with the role. It is intended to reflect the position accurately, but management reserves the right to revise responsibilities and requirements as organizational needs evolve. Other responsibilities may be assigned when necessary.
Position & Application Details
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@wgu.edu.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.