Staff Software Engineer (Salesforce)
Western Governors UniversitySalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Posted December 24, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
WGU is a mission-driven university that pioneers a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders.
Job Description
WGU is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Salesforce) to lead the evolution of WGU's Salesforce ecosystem, shaping systems that power our student experience, enrollment processes, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Lead engineering teams to deliver high-quality Salesforce solutions on time and within budget
- Serve as a trusted technical expert across multiple Salesforce domains, guiding 12+ engineers and collaborating with architects, product, and project managers
- Enhance and evolve WGU's Student Self-Service Enrollment platform, a mission-critical system supporting student access and enrollment
- Design resilient, secure, and scalable Salesforce solutions that integrate with WGU's cloud ecosystem (AWS, Mulesoft, Informatica)
- Implement modern engineering practices to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Partner with cross-functional teams to build cohesive, future-ready systems
- Mentor engineers through coaching, technical reviews, and thought leadership
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- health savings account and flexible spending account
- basic and voluntary life insurance
- disability coverage
- accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- legal and identity theft coverage
- retirement savings plan
- wellbeing program
- discounted WGU tuition
- flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- up to 12 weeks of parental leave
