"Senior Django Engineer"

Senior Django Engineer

Company: Western Governors University

Job Location: Category: Programmer/Analyst Type: Full-Time

Job Type: Full time

Job Number: JR-022989

Location: Salt Lake City 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.

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: Grade: Technical 410 Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

At Western Governors University, our ambition is to be the world's most student-centric university; everything we do begins and ends with our students, our alumni, and their families. The success and wellbeing of individuals is at our core. It's why we exist. It's why we are committed to changing higher education. This is what it looks like to create pathways of opportunity for everyone: one by one. Our innovative approach and passionate team drive us to deliver exceptional solutions in education. With a commitment to excellence and a culture of collaboration, we strive to be leaders in education technology.

About the Team and Project

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 which provides a platform to over 55 million learners across the world. Our team aims to improve the performance, and accessibility to this platform and its peripheral functions. We are looking for highly skilled engineers who are willing to contribute advanced innovation to online education.

Core Responsibilities

• Write code that is understandable and extensible for other organizations and engineers to implement and reuse.
• Provide documentation that breaks down complex architecture or software concepts.
• Present ideas and concepts with clear communication in a way that helps others learn.

Technical Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Django, including building enterprise-grade applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Master's preferred).
• Experience improving application performance across the backend models, databases, and migrations.
• Proven leadership in developing and scaling full-stack applications.
• Experience with modern infrastructure technologies, including AWS, Docker, and containerization.
• Expertise in authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 and SAML, and experience in server-to-server integrations.
• Strong relational database experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks such as pytest.

Expertise

• Proficiency in Git/GitHub, npm, pipenv, and related development tools.
• Experience integrating third-party platforms and building custom API endpoints.
• Familiarity with open-source platforms like Open edX.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and enthusiasm for engaging with a global community through pull requests, events, forums participation, and working groups.
• Produces clear, easy-to-follow documentation - in pull request descriptions, GitHub issues, official documentation, etc.
• Effectively solves business problems, with minimal oversight, from technical discovery to community consensus to development to merging - and ultimately, community adoption.
• Understands and makes well-reasoned design decisions, considering tradeoffs and priorities. Considers community need and solicits community input as part of the decision-making process.
• Can reflect on community interactions and adjust behavior to create a welcoming and inclusive environment.
• Provides mentorship within team and community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 6 years of experience in software development; pioneering new approaches and technologies in engineering
• Experience in web-based applications and web services using Python and Django and integrating third party products with existing infrastructure.
• Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Experience with IntellliJ/VS Code, JIRA, Git
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Project Development
• Experience with Java or a similar Object-oriented language
• Experience with IDM/OSSO, Hibernate/Seam, Banner
• Experience with Application Integration with legacy systems
• Experience with Cloud-Native Development, and/or Porting/Refactoring of On-Site to Cloud (preferably AWS)
• Experience with J2EE, Java EE, JavaScript, and SQL
• Technical Certifications