Sr Associate Software Development Engineer

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The Workday Developer Platform team seeks a software development engineer to drive the development and modernization of new platform capabilities, focusing on enhancing UI Platform backend services. This role will improve the security, resiliency, and reliability of our backend services to support Workday's continued growth. Our mission is to empower developers to solve the user experience problems of today and tomorrow.

About the Role

As a P2 software engineer you will work with a development team of engineers to deliver reliable functionality for our platform. You will focus on driving backend platform engineering innovation and modernization by developing new capabilities, strategic architectural improvements, and reducing operational costs. 

Role & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with our software engineering teams responsible for the UI platform

• Collaborate across teams to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient solutions

• Produce high quality, reliable and maintainable code to build libraries/frameworks

About You

Basic Qualification 

• 3+ years of coding experience with server-side development utilizing Java/Kotlin as the primary language and exposure to related technologies like Spring

• 2+ years implementing and understanding Object-Oriented Programming and common design patterns (MVC, Inversion of Control, Event-driven systems)

• 2+ years using ​CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Other Qualifications:

• Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications

• Take ownership of deliverables from end to end, including requirements, design, implementation, and test

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences

• Familiar with Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Terraform

• Experience with containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

• Knowledge with Database & Middleware: Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Algorithmic and Object-Oriented Design: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a proven understanding and application of object-oriented design (OOD) principles.

• Team Collaboration: Excellent ability to work efficiently within a team, giving to shared goals and encouraging a collaborative environment.