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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
Software Engineer (Systems): Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms, including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design. Survey Tip: This job should be matched by companies that develop systems software. Companies that have both applications and systems software engineers and do not identify them by function should match to Software Development Engineer (5101-5106).
About the Role
Workday is not your average company and we pride ourselves on everything that makes us unique such as our culture, core values, company meetings, commitment to sustainability, recognition programs but most importantly our people. Workday employees are self-disciplined, hard-working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. Workday is the leader in enterprise class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for the management of global businesses and is growing very fast, both globally and in Dublin.
The role
Spanning Dublin, Canada & the US, our team is responsible for the UI platform technology used across the full suite of Workday products. Our platform is mission critical, scaling to support some of the worlds' largest companies running their businesses on Workday.
We are recruiting for all experience levels of full-stack software engineers to join our team! Joining a group of other developers and QA to innovate, deliver and deploy the end-user facing layers of the Workday products, used by tens of millions of people worldwide on a daily basis.
Modern technologies are used to ensure that our products have the best possible user experience. We have a tech stack based on Java in the backend with frontends currently being developed mainly in React.
Our state of the art CI/CD processes enable us to ship software to production every week and get valuable early feedback from customers. Developing for scale is something that has been part of Workdays DNA from the start, and we are currently serving tens of millions of employees in blue-chip companies world wide, using a fully cloud based solution with one single codeline.
To be successful and able to hit the ground running, it would be important to have a solid base in frontend development, AND/OR a backend OOP language such as Java. Other skills can be built up as part of the job. For our more senior roles we are looking for self-starters who have the experience to drive complex initiatives without being given detailed direction and are able to provide technical guidance and mentoring to the more junior team members.
Responsibilities:
Work in a multi-disciplinary scrum team. Define, build, deploy and own new features
Collaborate with visual and interaction designers to craft the UI of the product
Drive technical design and architecture meetings with the team and perform peer code reviews as part of everyday workflow
Demonstrate technical awareness, vision and influencing skills in your interactions with the people outside your immediate team/org
And finally: Have fun engineering software!
About You
Required Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably Computer Science/Engineering
3-5+ years’ experience developing software in a commercial environment
3-5+ year experience in developing web applications in HTML5/CSS/JS and using frameworks/libraries such as React or Angular
Experience writing backend service code in Java (preferred) or an equivalent OO based language such as C#
Proven ability to work in an agile, fast paced continuous delivery environment
Preferred:
A passion for innovation and ability to contribute to shaping the technical and product roadmaps
React experience is an advantage but not strictly required
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Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably Computer Science/Engineering
3-5+ years’ experience developing software in a commercial environment
3-5+ year experience in developing web applications in HTML5/CSS/JS and using frameworks/libraries such as React or Angular
Experience writing backend service code in Java (preferred) or an equivalent OO based language such as C#
Proven ability to work in an agile, fast paced continuous delivery environment
