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:

Pay Range: $116,000.00 - $174,100.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• This engineering team is focused on open-source software, particularly the Open edX software. Open edX is a learning management system, content management system, course authoring tool, and more that provides a platform to over 55 million learners worldwide.

• Our team aims to improve the performance and accessibility of this platform and its peripheral functions. We are looking for highly skilled engineers willing to contribute advanced innovation to online education.

• • Demonstrate leadership and performance principles aligning with our company mission.
• • Engage respectfully to create an environment inclusive of diverse individuals and perspectives.
• • Adaptability to turn obstacles into opportunities, embracing unforeseen circumstances or changing priorities.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Experience with Web Services development: REST/SOAP/SOA/XML/HTML

• Good understanding of issue troubleshooting and performance tuning

• Commitment to quality through the ability to translate complex technical requirements into functional software using best practices to write high-quality code.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Working equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects and the ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to other team members.

   

Competencies:

Organizational or Student Impact:

• Follows technical/ business processes; helps support change when necessary.

• Executes complex, specialized technical projects/assignments.

• Responsible for major or many components in the area of expertise.

• Limit errors to prevent impact to client operations, costs, or schedules.

Problem Solving and Decision Making:

• Individual meets department and personal goals with little direction/ supervision.

• Leads key technical projects, programs and may facilitate leadership and development of technical teams.

• Drives project methods, techniques, and procedures.

Communication and Influence:

• Communicates with parties within and outside of the university (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)

• Works to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures, and... For full info follow application link.

   

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.