Western Governors University is looking to migrate its front-end applications to a cutting-edge monorepo architecture, and is seeking a Staff Angular Front-end Engineer to drive this high-impact migration and shape the future of its front-end platform.
Requirements
- Expert-level experience with Angular (v12+) including advanced knowledge of RxJS, NgRx or other state management solutions, and modular application design.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining monorepo architectures (e.g., Nx, Bazel, or similar) for large-scale front-end applications.
- Strong track record of building and maintaining large-scale front-end architectures, including performance and scalability considerations.
- Deep understanding of front-end build systems and CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable tools).
- Skilled in modern TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, and front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, etc.).
- Experience with AWS services or other major cloud platforms to deploy and scale front-end applications.
- Technical certifications in front-end frameworks, cloud technologies, or CI/CD architecture.
Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of our front-end applications to a monorepo architecture, ensuring a scalable, maintainable, and high-performing Angular ecosystem.
- Act as the Angular subject matter expert, setting best practices for component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
- Design and implement robust CI pipelines to support continuous integration across multiple teams; partner with DevOps on CI/CD strategy.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring, guiding engineers in modern front-end engineering patterns and monorepo best practices.
- Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to identify technical risks, dependencies, and solutions early in the development lifecycle.
- Drive operational excellence, improving code quality, testing strategies, and deployment reliability across the engineering organization.
- Contribute to long-term front-end platform strategy, influencing tooling, coding standards, and architectural decisions.
Other
- 10+ years in software engineering (or equivalent experience).
- Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours).
- Eligible for bonuses; 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; and 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, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
- Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
