Sr Associate Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

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About the Team

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Gateways team you will play an important role in building and maintaining the API gateway services that power Workdays integration layer. You will work with technologies such as Scala Akka HTTP and Akka Streams to develop highly scalable and resilient distributed systems that handle significant traffic volumes.

Your work will directly impact the reliability and performance of services that every Workday integration and API call depends on. You will contribute clean well-documented and testable code participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions and collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain API Gateway services using Scala Akka HTTP and Akka Streams

• Implement robust routing validation authentication and transformation logic

• Contribute to the development of highly scalable and resilient distributed systems

• Write clean well-documented and testable code

• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions

• Diagnose and resolve production issues including on-call support

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions

• Contribute to improving the efficiency and reliability of services

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in software engineering developing and delivering scalable software applications or services

• 2 years of experience with Scala or Java.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience
  

Other Qualifications

• Solid understanding of algorithmic thinking with the ability to design implement and analyse efficient algorithms for data processing and automated reasoning tasks to solve complex problems

• Proficient in software development practices including experience with programming languages (Scala or Java) and a strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle from design and programming through to testing and documentation

• Experience with code testing methodologies such as unit testing integration testing and regression testing with the ability to identify and fix issues before deployment and improve overall software quality

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles including encapsulation inheritance polymorphism and abstraction and the ability to create flexible and reusable software components

• Familiarity with source control management tools and practices with the ability to manage versions and branches resolve merge conflicts and contribute to maintaining the integrity of a shared codebase

• A collaborative team member who communicates effectively contributes to a positive team environment and works cooperatively with others to solve problems and deliver results

• Experience with distributed systems API development or high-throughput services is a plus

• Familiarity with Akka HTTP Akka Streams or similar reactive/streaming frameworks is a plus

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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