Software Application Engineer - Prospective Student Evaluation & Decision Development

Your work days are brighter here.

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.

About the Team

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 focus 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, one of our core values is fun!!


Workday Student is part of Workday's suite of cloud-based enterprise solutions. The team’s core mission is to improve the work day for Higher Education administrators and faculty through greater technical capability, while empowering students on their educational journeys.

The Prospective Student team is responsible for various crucial aspects of Student product including student recruitment process, providing highly configurable online applications capabilities to Institutions, supporting processes related to lifecycle of student before matriculation. On this team, you'll experience designing new features and finding elegant solutions to challenging problems, while operating in an Agile environment.

About the Role

• You will join a great team of developers who are committed and proud of delivering high class customer solutions. 

• This role involves working closely with software engineers, Product Managers and QA engineers to implement creative solutions for complex use case requirements requested by various size colleges and universities.

• You will help drive the implementation of new features in either React and/or Xpresso (XO) and support existing products. 

• You will also contribute to debug and solve any customer support cases to ensure we provide high customer satisfaction.

• You will contribute ideas for continually improving the team's efficiency, job satisfaction, and code quality.

• Build and maintain robust, efficient and maintainable code using an object-oriented framework and class modeling 

• You should be passionate about customer experience and building the right product.

About You

 

Basic Qualification

• BS+5 or MS+3 years of experience with UML, application development or SaaS (Software as a Service) technologies
• 2+ years experience with React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Restful APIs, and related modern front-end libraries.
• 5+ years experience with object modeling, application design, OO design and development in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C#, C++, XO, etc.
• XO experience is not required but should be willing to learn and build enterprise products.
• Should have good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Should have the ability to mentor junior engineers in following best practices, delivering high quality code and building strong domain knowledge within the team.

Other Qualification

• Experience with breaking apart complex solutions into simpler iterative, scalable and performant solutions to deliver value incrementally.
• Metadata driven definitional development experience is a plus.
• Experience designing/developing business applications – functional knowledge of Student Information Systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development practices.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum.

 

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-