About the Role

As an active member of the team, you’ll directly manage 3-6 engineers at varying experience levels and stages in their career. You’ll work one to one with engineers to help them set and achieve goals, develop new skills, and support their overall career progression and personal development. You’ll also play a key role in hiring additional members of your team as we continue to grow the Peakon engineering team at Workday.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for executing on the product vision, working closely with the Product Manager and other stakeholders to scope, refine and break down projects, ensuring a high level of quality and timely delivery of your team’s projects. You’ll guide the day-to-day technical work of the team, focusing on sound architecture, quality and building the right things, the right way.

As part of the Peakon team at Workday, you'll:

• Be the people leader for 3-6 engineers of various disciplines and experience levels
• Work closely with our talent acquisition team to define a hiring process for your team that ensures we hire the best talent
• Provide guidance to members of your team, knowing when to coach and when to mentor
• Use your technical expertise to contribute towards building a best-in-class product
• Set your team up for success by removing obstacles and supporting their personal and professional growth
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to plan and prioritise work on your team’s roadmap
• Be a member of the wider Engineering Management team, meeting regularly with peers from other teams to discuss best practices and challenges

Our Tech

• We make it a priority to stay on the cutting edge of tech. We are highly motivated by learning and growing in our roles, and constantly evolving is a key part of that.
• We believe there is great value in a shared toolchain, which is why our tech stack centres around JavaScript, with Node.js on the server and React on the frontend. Some tasks are better solved with different tools, and thus we use Python for the data science parts of the system.
• We are primarily hosted on Heroku and AWS, with a growing number of our services moving to the latter. We use PostgreSQL (through RDS), Redis and ElasticSearch for storage.
• We rely heavily on automated testing on all levels of the application, with thousands of tests checking every commit to our code base.
• We use Buildkite for continuous integration to make sure our most recent changes are always available to test, and we deploy code to our production environment every day.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, developing and releasing complex software products
• 3+ years in a technical lead role including coaching and mentoring of team mates 
• You have excellent written and verbal communications skills in English

Other Qualifications

• You have experience building web applications with an understanding of scalability, high availability, latency and throughput
• You prefer the challenge, and reward, of working with a team towards a common goal, rather than trying to reach it alone.
• You are passionate about building and leading an inclusive and diverse team
• You have a good understanding of agile product development and what it takes to bring a product from idea into the hands of customers
• You are passionate about finding ways to develop people and improve processes
• You know how to establish realistic timelines to ensure consistent high quality deliveries