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Software Development Engineer (Java and XpressO)
WorkdayIrelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 May 2025
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<p><b><b>Your work days are brighter here.</b></b></p><p></p><p><span>At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.</span></p><p></p><p><span>At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><b>About the Team</b></p>It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer centricity to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun. The Business Process Optimize Team, which spans globally across Dublin Ireland, Munich Germany and Pleasanton US is working on a new product offering to surface business process data, insights, and recommendations to our customers to allow them to optimize all of their people and money processes with a transformative AI based experience within Workday. We value innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of ownership. We believe that mistakes are invaluable opportunities for growth, and we continuously learn from them to improve.<p></p><p><b>About the Role</b></p><p></p><p><b><b>Do what you love. Love what you do.</b></b></p><ul><li><p><span>At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work. </span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><b>What does a Software Development Engineer do at Workday?</b></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Designs and implements elegant, scalable and performant features and components in a team-oriented environment</span></p></li><li><p><span>Delivers high quality, well thought-out features that keep Workday's application developers in mind</span></p></li><li><p><span>Collaborates with team members by white-boarding and working through ideas with constructive recommendations from the rest of the team and vice-versa</span></p></li><li><p><span>Shares knowledge via mentoring, reviews and technical discussions</span></p></li><li><p><span>Introduces the team to new technologies, frameworks, and points of view</span></p></li></ul><p></p><h2><b><b>Our Tech Stack</b></b></h2><ul><li><p><span>Python/Java</span></p></li><li><p><span>Machine Learning / AI </span></p></li><li><p><span>AWS, GCP</span></p></li><li><p><span>React and Javascript / typescript</span></p></li><li><p><span>XpressO (Workday proprietary)</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>About You</b></p><p></p><p><span>Are you passionate about building new products? Are you interested in building the future framework to support Optimization using AI and ML ? Do you like sharing knowledge with your peers and inspiring creativity within your team? Do you enjoy attending meetups, hackathons and Dev Conferences? Then you sound like an ideal candidate to apply to our role with the Workday BP Optimize team!</span></p><h2></h2><h2><b><span>Basic Qualifications</span></b></h2><ul><li><p><span>6+ years of experience with object-oriented design and experience programming with Python/Java</span></p></li><li><p><span>3+ years of experience with standard development tools and processes: source control, IDEs, frameworks, Unit tests, debugging, issue trackers (e.g., JIRA), code review tools, pipeline testing, etc.</span></p></li><li><p><span>2+ yea
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