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

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 centricity 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, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.
The Workday Extend - Model Components Team creates the building blocks of Extend Applications i.e Business Objects, Business Processes, Reports, Tasks and Security Domains, that will enable customers to define their own metadata models and workflows which will live alongside & interact with native Workday owned metadata
Our team is looking for a Software Engineer who will contribute to the design and development of the Core Architecture to power the persistence components that make up a Workday Extend application.

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).

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).

• Collaborate with peers, product owners, and designers to design, build, test, and deliver high-quality software to our quickly growing developer community

• Write clear, efficient, and scalable code with an eye towards maintainability

• Participate in design and code reviews

• Discover and solve issues with existing architecture and code

• Polish, improve, and innovate with regards to the existing code base

• Support the release planning by understanding the details (effort, risk, priority) of the planned features in an agile environment

• Own and contribute to team productivity/process improvements

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in Object Oriented Design and Programming - proficient in Java/Kotlin
• 5+ years of software and systems delivery experience
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong in algorithms and data structures
• Experience with REST, including good API design
• Experience with microservice architecture/ distributed systems, concurrency and/or multithreading
• Proficiency with major development tools like git/ Docker/ Gradle, Jenkins
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experienced at leading complex projects requiring prototyping & designs from the ground-up
• Strong