Senior Engineer (Tech Lead) Application Development

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Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

As a Senior Engineer / Tech Lead youll be a hands-on technical leader working closely with scrum teams product managers and business partners across product boundaries. Youll design and build scalable highly performant and resilient solutions that support the needs of our 60 million users around the world. All development is cloud-native on a single codeline enabling rapid iteration through our continuous development model.

You will:

• Drive the design and development of scalable highly performant highly available enterprise application solutions that directly impact our global user base.
• Innovate constantly while committing efficient robust and maintainable code within an object-oriented framework.
• Champion code quality relentlessly by delivering reliable unit integration and system-level tests that run on our continuous delivery pipeline ensuring robust and stable production systems.
• Partner effectively with product and senior stakeholders to shape and drive the product vision.
• Communicate complex technical ideas simply and effectively to drive informed decision-making with senior leadership.
• Coach and mentor team members to deliver to high standards actively contributing to pair programming initiatives interactive code reviews design reviews knowledge-sharing brown bags and innovation-focused hackathons.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with local and remote technical teams ensuring we consistently deliver the best possible solutions to our customers.

About You

You are passionate about software an innovative problem-solver who can quickly identify and understand complex issues and drive them to effective resolution.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with web application development and/or SaaS (Software as a Service).
• Extensive development experience with object-oriented languages at a senior level (e.g. Java C# Python).
• A collaborative team player with strong communication skills.
• An owner who proactively solves problems and takes full accountability for your code from development through production.
• Proven experience leading the technical delivery of innovative and complex business functionality.
• A deep understanding of software engineering principles (e.g. design patterns data structures algorithms) and the ability to demonstrate their application in recent project deliverables.
• A code quality champion and advocate with a solid understanding of test automation principles.
• Strong understanding of performance engineering and performance testing principles.

Other Qualifications:

• Team Leadership and/or Agile leadership experience.
• Experience with integration technologies (e.g. RESTful APIs message queues).
• Exposure to modern UI technologies such as React.
• Experience with metadata-driven development contributing to highly configurable and adaptable platforms.

At Workday we believe every potential recruit brings unique value to the table. Believe you are missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply We do not believe in the perfect candidate and are happy to teach. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you apply and see what we are all about!

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