Senior Staff Software Engineer - Carbon

At Workiva, we are committed to building innovative solutions that help businesses navigate complex challenges. Our Carbon team focuses on developing technology to support carbon accounting—a rapidly evolving and intricate industry segment. We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive the delivery of high-impact solutions.

An ideal candidate will have a strong sense of teamwork, curiosity and responsibility. We are looking for someone preferably with experience in cloud-based architecture, customer focus, and who has a passion for change.  You will be building and delivering software that will have a real impact on our planet's future.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical direction for the engineering team, setting best practices and ensuring high-quality software delivery

• Architect and develop scalable, event-driven microservices and APIs that power our carbon accounting solutions

• Learn and adapt to carbon accounting principles and apply them effectively in software development

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business needs into technical solutions

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that follows industry best practices and coding standards

• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and automated tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.) with Workiva solutions in mind to ensure software quality and reliability

• Participate in product discovery activities with customers and stakeholders to gain insights, validate hypotheses, and identify opportunities for innovation

• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to identify problems, suggest solutions, and drive continuous improvement

• Communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, using clear and concise language

• Participating in the production on-call support rotation

What You’ll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience

• Strong foundation in computer science, including expertise in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented software design, and working with cloud-based distributed systems

• Exposure to SaaS product-engineering development

• Hand-on experience in a production engineering environment

• Experience with AWS and TypeScript

• Strong experience designing and building microservices and working with distributed systems

• Proficiency with CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), event-driven architectures, and event sourcing

• Expertise in React, GraphQL (API development), and Snowflake (data storage)

• Expertise in debugging complex systems or applications

• Experience as a technical mentor preferred, with the ability to coach and mentor junior engineers

• Experience working in an agile development environment preferred, with a focus on continuous improvement and delivery

• Experience developing for service-oriented architecture is a plus

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and adaptability skills, with a commitment to staying up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in software engineering

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Embrace your inner wanderlust – expect up to 10% travel

• Stay virtually untethered with the power of reliable internet access, enabling you to work remotely from your c