Senior Engineer (Tech Lead) Talent Product 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 on the Talent Acquisition Product Development team you will be a hands-on technical leader working closely with scrum teams product managers and business partners across product boundaries. You will design and build scalable highly performant and resilient solutions that support the needs of our 60 million users around the world. A key focus of this role will be building APIs on top of new and existing functionality as well as developing the agentic tooling layer that sits above them. All development is cloud-native on a single codeline enabling rapid iteration through our continuous development model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and development of scalable highly performant and highly available enterprise application solutions including APIs and agentic tooling that directly impact our global user base.

• Innovate constantly while delivering efficient robust and maintainable code within an object-oriented framework.

• Champion code quality 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 managers and senior partners to shape and drive the product vision.

• Communicate complex technical ideas simply and effectively to support informed decision-making with senior leadership.

• Coach and mentor team members to deliver to high standards actively contributing to pair programming interactive code reviews design reviews knowledge-sharing sessions 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

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of experience with web application development and/or SaaS (Software as a Service).

• 2 years experience with Python

• Extensive development experience with object-oriented languages at a senior level (e.g. Java C# Python).

• A deep understanding of software engineering principles (e.g. design patterns data structures algorithms) and the ability to demonstrate their application in recent project work.

Other Qualifications

• A collaborative team player with clear communication skills who proactively solves problems and takes full accountability for your code from development through production.

• Experience leading the technical delivery of innovative and complex business functionality.

• Understanding of performance engineering and performance testing principles.

• 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.

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.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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