Software Development Engineer- API Tooling

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About the Team

Join our team to build the tools that support the consumption, testing, and monitoring of Workday’s APIs. We’re responsible for enabling developers and partners to more easily use REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs. We value innovation, teamwork, and ownership. While we believe mistakes are inevitable, learning from them so we can improve is essential to us. We want folks who are willing to grab a shovel and dig in regardless of title or position.

About the Role

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with designers and back-end developers to implement and integrate front-end components.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Be proactive to identify hotspots in the platform and address them before they trigger incidents.
• Collaborate with multi-functional partner teams and ensure the platform meets their requirements.
• Provide guidelines and standard processes to the multi-functional teams based on infrastructure principles; enable them to deliver services that are highly available, secure, performant and cost effective. 

About You

Basic Qualifications-Software Development Engineer

• 4+ years of experience in front-end software development using React, Javascript, and Typescript to implement component-based UI architectures

Basic Qualifications-Sr Associate Software Development Engineer

• 2+ years of experience in front-end software development using React, Javascript, and Typescript to implement component-based UI architectures

Other Qualifications

• Strong programming skills using Object-Oriented Principles in web application development.

• Experience contributing to ML based projects is preferred

• Experience with Amazon Web services is preferred

• Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews, and source control management

• Proficient in technical writing documentation

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership.

• Hands-on experience with source control, IDE, unit testing, debugging, profiling, JIRA, TeamCity, etc.

• Familiarity with Web Service infrastructure (XML/Schema, WSDL, SOAP, REST, XSLT, SAX, etc.)

• Experience with GraphQL desirable

• Software localization and translation infrastructure experience desirable

• BS or higher degree in Computer Sci