Do what you love. Love what you do.
At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
About the Team
As we grow the Peakon engineering team at Workday, we are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join us in either London or Dublin. Peakon teams own their roadmap, work collaboratively and include engineering, UI/UX design, and product management.
The Peakon team at Workday is driven by the belief that we can radically change the world of work. We believe that when an organisation listens to employee feedback and empowers every employee to drive the change they want to see, it can create more fulfilling jobs and grow in ways never before imagined.
We’re in the business of creating great places to work, so it should be no surprise that being a great place to work is our highest priority. With ambitions as big as ours, we see individual growth and development as the key strategy for growing our business.
Your focus will be to contribute to the development, architecture, and evolution of the Peakon platform.
You will be a key contributor in technical and architectural discussions within the backend engineering team, working closely with peers and engineering leaders to drive the technical direction of our platform forward.
You’ll also act as a role model, supporting your team members directly with continuous feedback through collaborative code reviews, technical mentoring and coaching.
As part of the Peakon team at Workday, you'll:
Be an integral member of a cross-functional team working in an agile environment
Collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and the team’s product manager to deliver exciting and impactful features for employees across all levels at companies who use Peakon everyday
Regularly review and discuss other engineer’s code to find the best solution for the challenge at hand
Contribute to and provide guidance for architectural changes of high complexity with other engineers across all levels
Participate in the hiring process, helping us continuously scale our engineering teams
Use your technical expertise to contribute towards building a best-in-class product
You are an engineer at heart, who loves to tinker and build things
You have experience operating and maintaining medium to large scale web applications built with Node.js
You have a product mentality and enjoy experimenting to find innovative solutions to customer needs
You have a proven understanding of agile product development and what it takes to bring a product from idea into the hands of customers
You are open to opinions of others and constructively discuss solutions to find the best one
You are an effective communicator who can provide the right level of technical detail relevant to a particular audience
You are able to quickly and accurately break down, estimate, prioritise, and deliver projects of high technical complexity
You are looking for an opportunity to grow your career in a fast paced, growing company, and influence the engineering culture and technologies behind it
You are you! We want you to bring your true self to work, so you can help us shape the engineering culture within the Peakon team at Workday!
You are an engineer at heart, who loves to tinker and build things
You have experience operating and maintaining medium to large scale web applications built with Node.js
You have a product mentality and enjoy experimenting to find innovative solutions to customer needs
You have a proven understanding of agile product development and what it takes to bring a product from idea into the hands of customers
You are open to opinions of others and constructively discuss solutions to find the best one
You are an effective communicator who can provide the right level of technical detail relevant to a particular audience
You are able to quickly and accurately break down, estimate, prioritise, and deliver projects of high technical complexity
You are looking for an opportunity to grow your career in a fast paced, growing company, and influence the engineering culture and technologies behind it
You are you! We want you to bring your true self to work, so you can help us shape the engineering culture within the Peakon team at Workday!
