Senior Software Engineer - FS Frontend (Angular Specific Mexico) (wgu)

Job Description

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.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

WGU leverages Angular frontend framework that sits on top of an AWS pipeline. Our products include Angular, NodeJS, AEM, and Builder.io. Frontend developers are expected to participate in writing new features, fixing existing bugs, writing unit and e2e tests, providing code reviews, and managing code through test environments and into production. Projects are mostly performed in Agile with participation needed in the 5 ceremonies - daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and team retrospectives.

Team Specific:

The “pre” student experience team focuses on the part of the student lifecycle before entering as a student within WGU. This includes applications involving marketing, recommendations for student paths, and funneling students towards the correct enrollment experience. The development team works in an agile adjusted manner closely with product and project management. There are typical scrum ceremonies including a daily standup, JIRA project plans, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and sprint demos.

Expectations:

Expertise in Coding:

Responsible for the research, design, development, analysis, testing, and implementation of software. Implements extensible, reusable code with requirements and future needs in mind. Solves difficult problems in assigned area without unnecessary guidance.

Continuous Integration and Delivery:

Maintains and improves the CI/CD pipelines for deploying features and fixes to different environments. Leads a group or groups in identifying and presenting new research related to design and architecture that has practical application to WGU.

Code Quality: Responsible for test design (unit, integration, end-to-end) and code coverage. Comfortable writing and mentoring developers in test frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, and Cypress. Understanding of SOLID code principles

Process:

Familiar with agile management process. Demonstrates ability to comparatively size features by considering the past, taking test efforts into account, understanding the nature and the quality of the requirements. Participates heavily in the team retrospectives and shows relentless drive to improvement.

Leadership:

Mentors team members in finding ways to trouble shoot complicated system failures. Understands the integration mechanisms at use in the university and can guide developers in gaining an understanding of said integrations. Participates in paired programming and can volunteers to explain complicated systems and solutions.

Skillset:

Required (frontend) (Backend:

• Angular 12+
• NodeJS
• Vue to support AEM projects.
• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) (Java)
• CSS 3
• HTML 5
• ES6+
• TypeScript
• RxJs (Observables)
• Responsive Design (Flexbox, CSS Grid)
• Unit Testing (Jasmine, Karma, Jest)
• E2E Testing (Protractor, cypress)

Preferred nice to have (frontend):

• Builder.io
• Backend/full stack experience
• UX experience
• State Management (NgRx, etc)

As an equal opportunity employer, we recognize our strength lies in our people and commit to creating an inclusive environment where all can thrive, regardless of race, age, gender orientation, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.

Learn more about our WGU Mexico Team by clicking here.

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Learn more about our WGU Mexico Team by clicking here.