Western Governors University Looking for Software Engineer II (Python) Full Time

Job Type: Full time

Job Number: JR-009772

Location: Home Office

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Software Engineer II (Python)

About
WGU

Western Governors University is the nation’s largest university with over 130,000 students.  We believe in the transformative
power of education and our vision is to be the most innovative, student-centric university. The software that we write is our secret sauce
and enables competency-based education at a scale that’s never been seen.

As EdTech employees, we believe in WGU’s mission and see
how the work we do fits into this vision.  The work that we do makes a difference, our ideas and suggestions count, and we feel like part of
the team. We live the WGU cultural beliefs:  one-by-one, advance equity, aim true, own it, trust generously, engage respectfully, and
achieve together.  We strive to inspire and enable our students, our people, and ourselves to be better. 

Position Summary

The Software Engineer II is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the technology realm. The position will be
required to apply their expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department. They will also be
a key stakeholder and initiator of major changes to processes, engineering practices, and system administration. This position will be
required to work in a space of solving critical issues and initiatives across multiple teams. It will require an extensive and deep
understanding of cutting-edge practices and innovative approaches to problems. Sr. Software Engineers are also tasked with establishing and
maintaining a positive and productive culture.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Help in the building
  of cutting-edge applications and services to increase and improve the student experience

• Exemplify a mastery of coding
  excellence and software quality, mentoring others and pioneering new standards and architectural foundations

• Foster and
  utilize innovative approaches to problems and functionality for all key stakeholders

• Own technologies focusing on student
  success and scalability while supporting student-focused user experience

• Collaborate with developers, designers, testing, and
  product management to develop features and innovative approaches to applications and features

• Establish a balance between
  strategic planning and initiatives with development, communication, troubleshooting, and problem solving

• Lead in the
  prototyping and development of new technology and framework, improving the student experience

• Identify system redundancies
  and inefficiencies, proposing innovative and cost-effective solutions

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and
  the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects.

• Work with internal customers to gather
  business processes and project requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer
  science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience

• 3 years’ experience in software development,
  pioneering new approaches and implementing new technologies

• 3 years software development using
  Python

• Architecting, implementing, and managing microservices with an emphasis on interservice communication and API
  design

• AWS operational experience

• Agile Scrum environment experience

Preferred
Qualifications:

• oAuth 2 + OIDC

• 1 year experience in Identity and Access Management
  (IAM)

• SAML

• Cloud Environment experience

• Ping Identity (PingFederate
  PingAccess)

• Sailpoint IdentityIQ

• Okta

• LDAP / Active Directory

• AWS Single
  Sign-On

• AWS Cognito

• Test Automation: pytest

• 1 associate level cert and 1 professional cert –
  AWS or Python preferred

• Experience with other software tools and/or languages IE: Java, Tomcat, git, and GitHub; Spring,
  Spring Boot

*Current WGU employees must submit their internal application prior to 2/25/2022 to be considered for
this position*

Disclaimer: This Job Description has been designed to indicate the general nature, essential duties, and
responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties,
responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change
at any time with or without notice. This Job Description does not constitute a contract of employment and the University may exercise its
employment-at-will rights at any time.

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