Software Development Engineer Developer Platform

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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 Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team you will build and improve the front-end surfaces and developer tooling that make up the Workday Developer Portal. You will execute against well-scoped technical work defined in partnership with senior engineers contribute to shared UI components and build infrastructure and collaborate across product and engineering teams to ship reliable easy-to-use experiences for internal and external developers.

In this role you will:

• Build and maintain front-end surfaces within the Workday Developer Portal working within established micro-frontend (MFE) boundaries and shared component patterns.
• Contribute to developer tooling and build infrastructureincluding local dev environments CI/CD pipelines linting and testing setupsthat improve velocity and reliability for the broader engineering team.
• Implement features and fixes against designs and technical direction set by senior and principal engineers with growing autonomy over implementation details.
• Collaborate closely with senior engineers product managers and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver well-scoped engineering work on schedule.
• Follow established API governance and engineering best practices including versioning backward compatibility and security standards for public-facing surfaces.
• Participate in code review design discussions and pairing sessions both giving and receiving feedback to raise the technical bar on the team.
• Contribute to developer-facing documentation onboarding flows and tooling improvements that make the platform easier to adopt and extend.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 4 years of software engineering experience including ownership of features or components in production web applications.
• 4 years of experience building front-end applications with modern web technologies (for example TypeScript/JavaScript React) in a production environment.
• 4 years of experience working with REST or GraphQL APIs from the client side including handling authentication error states and data fetching patterns.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (for example GCP AWS or Azure) and basic operational practices such as logging and monitoring.
• Growing understanding of developer experience (DX) as a quality bar with an interest in applying that lens to UI and tooling decisions.
• Exposure to micro-frontend architecture shared component libraries or design systems and an interest in deepening that expertise.
• Familiarity with build tooling and CI/CD concepts (for example Webpack Vite GitHub Actions or similar) with willingness to grow into deeper build infrastructure work.
• Solid API design fundamentals including familiarity with REST GraphQL and OAuth 2.0/OIDC concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to execute well-scoped technical work independently with sound judgment on when to ask for guidance versus proceed.
• Effective communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to collaborate across product engineering and design teams.
• Eagerness to learn from senior engineers and grow into greater ownership of architecture and technical direction over time.

The following are advantageous but not required:

• Exposure to agentic AI capabilities including LLM-backed services agent frameworks or tool-use patterns (e.g. MCP).
• Familiarity with enterprise HCM talent or workforce management domains.
• Experience working with developer portals API catalogs or self-serve onboarding tooling.
• Background in multi-product or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Interest in developer relations or technical writing including contributing to docs guides or developer-facing content.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. 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.

Additional Considerations:

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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