$140,200–$217,200 Per Year
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programming Languages, Best Practices, Government, Higher Education, Mentoring, Modeling Languages, Online Training, Product Design, Prototyping, Software Engineering, System Operations, Technical Leadership, Technical Research, Technical/Engineering Design, Trade-Off Analysis, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
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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
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in ambiguous problem spaces and excels at technical research, discovery, and analysis. This role requires strong endtoend engineering skills across frontend and backend systems, along with handson experience designing and delivering AIpowered applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed on AWS and Kubernetes.
In this role, you will lead technical discovery efforts, explore emerging approaches, and translate loosely defined problems into scalable, productionready solutions. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering partners to shape userfacing experiences and cloudnative, containerized platform capabilities.
This is a handson senior individual contributor role with strong ownership of architecture, delivery, and mentoring.
What You'll Do
Technical Discovery and Research
* Lead research and discovery for complex, ambiguous problem spaces through architectural spikes, prototypes, and proofofconcepts
* Evaluate new technologies, AWS services, Kubernetes patterns, and AI capabilities
* Perform buildvsbuy and managedservice vs. selfmanaged tradeoff analyses
* Translate findings into clear architectural direction and implementation plans
AI and Large Language Models
* Design, implement, and evaluate AIpowered features using Large Language Models
* Apply prompt engineering, retrievalaugmented generation (RAG), and agentbased workflows
* Design AI systems that account for latency, cost, reliability, observability, and safety
* Deploy AI services in containerized environments and integrate them with cloudnative infrastructure
* Stay current with applied AI/LLM advancements and production best practices
FullStack Engineering
* Own features endtoend, from frontend experiences to backend services and data layers
* Build modern, responsive user interfaces using Angular, or similar frameworks
* Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs
* Ensure solutions meet high standards for performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
AWS, Kubernetes and CloudNative Architecture
* Design, deploy, and operate cloudnative systems on AWS using Kubernetes
* Build and... For full info follow application link.
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