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Staff Software Engineer

Salt Lake City, UT, USFull-time$161k–$250k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Staff Software Engineer providing technical expertise, influence, and leadership to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer

Builds

Online, competency-based degree programs and the university education platform

Domain

Higher Education / EdTech

Required skills

Software architecture, system design, cloud scalability, testing strategies, mentoring, risk management, SaaS implementation

Preferred skills

Master's Degree, advanced knowledge of higher education landscape

Technologies

Java, REST, SQL, GIT, public cloud

Responsibilities

Ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department; Act as a lead or consultant for domain areas or multiple teams; Identify problems and recommend preferred solutions; Improve operational excellence and platform availability; Plan and execute testing strategies; Partner with Operations to solve platform problems at a system level

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence