Software Development Engineer

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.

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About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!

Join our Trident team, which spans across Pleasanton, CA, US Remote and now Atlanta, GA! We are passionate about developing and supporting Graph API Framework that enables Workday developers to build, publish, and maintain Workday Graph APIs for their product areas. 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.

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

We are looking for an inquisitive and hardworking developer with the focus on backend, who proudly contributes clean and quality code, collaborates effectively with various partners, and can manage multiple priorities with competing timelines. The opportunity here is for you to be able to effectively use your backend knowledge as we continuously improve our framework.

You will be working with a team of passionate and driven Workmates who love to solve sophisticated problems; and we got a whole lot of them! You will:

• Build elegant, scalable and performant components.

• Collaborate with peers on vision, technical design, task estimation and execution of features.

• Write and maintain quality code and reliable automated tests.

• Contribute to the improvement of the team efficiency and engineering excellence.

• Work in a fast paced agile environment while balancing effort across multiple priorities.

• Experience delivering high-performance, high-throughput solutions.

Our Tech: XpressO (Workday proprietary), Java, Kotlin, Scala, GraphQL, Microservices.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience with object-oriented or functional design and programming with Java or Scala

• 2+ years of experience with concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, and distributed systems

• 2+ years of experience with 2 or more web service technologies like SOAP, REST, JSON, XML Schema, WSDL, etc

• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience

Other Qualifications:

• Solid ability in Algorithmic Thinking, including hash maps, trees, graph traversal, and greedy algorithms, to design and implement efficient solutions for data transformation, query planning, and dependency resolution.

• Good understanding of Code Testing methodologies, such as unit testing, contract testing, integration testing and system testing, and experience with JUnit, ScalaTest, and test coverage tools lik