Software Development Engineer

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here. 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! The Core Services organization is responsible for the foundational technology that powers Workday s applications and platform products. We design, build, and support a highly-performant distributed system that handles complex workloads at the scale required by the world s largest organizations. Our infrastructure runs across both Workday data centers and public cloud environments, executing mission-critical business processes, functions, and integrations. The organizations scope spans from the Gateway to the persistence layer, delivering the scalability, reliability, and efficiency needed to support Workday s rapidly evolving product landscape. Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive. About the Role About the Role Our Software Engineers deliver core features and services while collaborating with multiple partners and mentoring team members. We use mainly Java and Scala, and are pursuing Senior Software Engineers who have deep experience in multi-threading, concurrency, and solving exciting distributed systems design problems! You will be involved in all aspects of software development, including designing, coding, testing, deploying, while providing support for our customer-facing software solutions. Key responsibilities Design, develop and deliver enterprise grade solutions with robust unit tests and metrics Maintain continuous improvement within the team to ensure a high quality service Delivering quality features on-time and on-budget and implementing towards project plans and delivery commitments Handling the day-to-day development activities including participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation Mentor and learn from other team members through pairing, code reviews, knowledge shares, hackathons, etc. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to drive technical initiatives. About You Basic Qualifications (Required) Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related fields (or equivalent experience) 5+ years of experience with design and development for mission critical systems at scale Fluency in Java or Scala, common design patterns with good grasp of distributed systems and ability to communicate design ideas effectively Expertise in dealing with horizontal scale, high availability, concurrency, profiling, deployment, upgrade/migration, production support and other SaaS enterprise software issues Proficient in major development tools and processes, such as source control, requirement spec, design and design review, unit test, system test, performance test, etc. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!