Python Job: Senior Python Software Engineer

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities—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.

About WGU

Founded in 1997, by nineteen U.S. governors looking for a solution to their states’ growing needs for a college-educated workforce, Western Governor’s University (WGU) filled a gap not being met by traditional colleges and universities. Today, we are a leading nonprofit, private, online university, motivated entirely by our mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degrees and programs. We believe talent is universal, and we are passionate about breaking down barriers to ensure everyone has access to higher education! Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, we also have corporate offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas, with regional offices and remote employees spread throughout the U.S.

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.

The role: Python Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Python developer to join our IT team! As a Python developer at our company, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including app maintenance in different Python frameworks such as Django.

We expect you to have a strong understanding of the latest industry trends in Python web development and be ready to engage in different and new challenges.

Duties and responsibilities

• Design and implement new features and functionality
• Ensure high-performance and availability for the applications
• Work in projects with complex architecture that need attention to detail and multidisciplinary knowledge
• Creation of custom API endpoints to connect front end applications or other server integrations.
• Collaborate with developers, designers, testing, and product management to develop features and innovative approaches to applications and features
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects.

Requirements and qualifications

• Experience with REST services
• OAuth2 + OIDC
• SAML
• Test Automation: pytest
• Django
• Experience with other software tools and/or languages IE: git, and GitHub, pipenv
• Experience in server-to-server integrations
• Strong relational database knowledge, MySql, PostgreSQL etc.
• Experience with AWS

Nice to have

• Experience or knowledge about LTI
• Experience with open-source platforms such as Open EdX

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.

Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completo

Sueldo: A partir de $40,000.00 al mes

Horario:

• Turno de 8 horas

Prestaciones:

• Caja de ahorro
• Opción a contrato indefinido
• Programa de referidos
• Seguro de gastos médicos mayores
• Seguro de vida
• Vacaciones adicionales o permisos con goce de sueldo
• Vales de despensa

Tipos de compensaciones:

• Bono anual

Experiencia:

• Python: 5 años (Deseable)

Idioma:

• Inglés (Obligatorio)