Western Governors University Looking for Senior Front End Software Engineer Full Time

Job Type: Full time

Job Number: JR-010909

Location: Home Office

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.

Current WGU employees must submit an internal application
before 6/4/2022 to be considered.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1.Develop Web Applications- UI – Front
End- Using: HTML, CSS and JavaScript
2. Manage multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; excelling at
pinpointing and resolving problems in early project stages to avoid cost/time expenses
3. Deliver high quality projects on time, through
ability to design architecture, write high quality code, and execute effective unit tests
4. Optimize performance tuning for high
utilization 24×7 access
5. Integrate third party products with existing infrastructure
6. Excellent verbal and written communication
skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects.
7. Work with internal customers to gather
business processes and project requirements
8. Researches, designs, and develops computer software systems, in conjunction with hardware
product development applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
9. Analyzes software
requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
10. Consults with hardware engineers and other
engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, and operational and performance requirements of overall
system.
11. Formulates and designs software system, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and
consequences of design.
12. Develops and directs software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.
13. Ensures work
area is clean, secure, and well maintained.
14. Performs miscellaneous projects as assigned.
15. Updates technical skills as
required.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities

• Experience with Web Services development: HTML, CSS , JavaScri
• 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
• Other Technical Experience That Would be a Plus
• NetBeans
• Subversion
• Jira
• Agile/Scrum project development
• IDM/OSSO
• ASP/.Net
• DRUPAL
• Groovy/Grails
• Ruby/Rails
• PHP
• Hibernate/Seam
• Banner
• DROOLS, JBOSS
• Technical Certification
• Application Integration with legacy systems
• JSF, J2EE, Java EE, jQuery, JavaScript
• SQL
• Oracle or other database interface

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor
  of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience and a proven track
  record in developing web-based applications and web services using Java, SOAP, REST, XML, and other web technologies, including experience
  interfacing with Oracle databases, and integrating third party products with existing infrastructure

Preferred
Qualifications:

Working Conditions

As an equal opportunity employer, WGU recognizes that our strength lies in our people.
We are committed to diversity.