Staff Developer, Software Development

We are seeking a Staff Full-Stack Web Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing, building, enhancing, and supporting web applications and services that enable teams across engineering, quality, manufacturing, and customer support. This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer who can drive architecture, lead complex initiatives across teams, and guide solutions from concept through deployment and long-term evolution.

The ideal candidate combines deep full-stack engineering expertise with strong technical judgment, cross-functional influence, and a practical approach to solving business problems at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, deployment, and long-term support of scalable web applications, APIs, and supporting services.
• Drive complex initiatives across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, release planning, deployment, and operational support.
• Partner with stakeholders across customer support, engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing to translate business needs into reliable, maintainable, and scalable technical solutions.
• Establish technical direction for frontend and backend application development, including framework selection, system design patterns, integration strategies, and engineering standards.
• Design and optimize relational data models, database schemas, queries, and integrations to support business-critical workflows.
• Lead resolution of complex application, data, and system integration issues, and implement durable corrective and preventive actions.
• Review code, mentor engineers, and raise the overall quality bar through best practices in software design, testing, documentation, observability, and maintainability.
• Influence engineering processes, technical roadmaps, and modernization efforts, including improvements to legacy systems, developer productivity, and platform reliability.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to align technical solutions with strategic priorities while balancing hands-on contribution with technical leadership.

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience in C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
• 8+ years of experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Strong experience building modern web frontends using frameworks or libraries such as Vue.js, React, Angular, Bootstrap, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong experience with server-side web development using C# / ASP.NET or comparable backend frameworks.
• Strong experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects from requirements through production release and ongoing support.
• Experience defining architecture, technical standards, and scalable design approaches for business applications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across teams and lead through collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with significant depth in C# and ASP.NET.
• Deep SQL development and performance tuning experience across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
• Experience modernizing legacy web applications and improving maintainability, performance, scalability, and user experience.
• Familiarity with Agile software development practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and serving as a technical lead across multiple concurrent efforts.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality—for example code generation, refactoring, unit test creation, documentation, debugging, and code review support—while applying sound judgment, secure coding practices, and appropriate validation of AI-generated output.

What Will Help You Succeed

• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to lead initiatives from concept to production.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions while staying pragmatic about business needs and delivery timelines.
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills with attention to quality, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to communicate technical direction clearly and build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• A collaborative, team-first attitude and a passion for elevating engineering practices.
• A continuous improvement mindset and interest in adopting modern development practices and tools.

WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

WD thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 1.6.2027 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.  You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.