Full Stack Principal 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.

About the Team

If you enjoy the autonomy and agility of an innovative small team while benefiting from the stability of a large corporation and you have a passion for building scalable applications in collaboration with designers and other specialists, we are looking for you!

As part of the Lodestar Application team at Workday, you'll be an integral member of a multi-functional team in an agile environment. You will collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and the team’s product manager to deliver exciting and impactful features for customers. You will broaden your technical skills through regular review and discussion of code and use your technical expertise to build an outstanding product.

About the Role

We value innovation, collaboration, and ownership. You will design and implement features and components in a team oriented environment. You will partner with product management to break down high-level product vision into manageable pieces for development. Development work will primarily be in Java & GraphQL. You will also champion growth for yourself and others with various opportunities to mentor, create innovative solutions, inspire change, and share ideas across the company!

We are a geographically distributed organization with a focus on a presence in Pleasanton, CA and Boulder, CO; we coordinate teams around these geographies but ultimately collaborate with engineers and architects across the world.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with software development

• 8+ years of experience in programming applying one or more of the following: Java, JavaScript, C#

Other Qualifications

• Familiarity with GraphQL, REST APIs, AWS

• Experience with Frontend Development - React/Typescript

• You have a proven track record of taking a leadership role in projects that span multiple teams, deliver on-time while working in a fast paced agile environment

• You have exceptional software architecture skills including, but not limited to, modularization, generalization and component based architecture

• You are comfortable working alongside our product organization to clarify and prune requirements, delivering value incrementally and frequently

• You have the ability to balance priorities and make the right tradeoffs in feature content and timely delivery of features, while ensuring customer success and technology leadership for the company

• Deep appreciation of application development issues at enterprise level, specifically, large number of developers working together on the same application

• Knowledge of Workday Architecture

• Knowledge of functional programming

• Excellent verbal and written communication

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-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

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