Senior Staff Software Engineer, Workiva
$151-242k
A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Be an early applicant
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151-242k
A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software systems
- Experience leading technical strategy and architecture across teams
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI development, including shipping real work with AI as a primary development collaborator
Desirable
- Experience driving high-impact initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience improving engineering quality through TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, mutation testing, or similar approaches
- Strong systems thinking and judgment, including awareness of second-order effects
- Demonstrated proficiency in at least two delivery modes: platform modernization, iterative product evolution, and high-ambition greenfield development
- Ability to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers
- Depth in a domain that materially improves system design or developer experience
- Proven experience operating at Staff+ level across multiple teams or domains
- Strong background in distributed systems and platform architecture
- Experience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts
- Ability to deliver production-quality outcomes in a small, time-boxed team setting
- Strong written communication skills and a habit of creating useful, durable artifacts
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer who can lead across complex technical work, act as a force multiplier for other engineers, and help shape how teams build in an AI-enabled environment
- This is a hands-on role for someone who can contribute directly to design and implementation while also raising the technical bar across the organization
- Partner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution, and new product initiatives
- Adapt your approach to match the needs of the work, whether the priority is speed, scale, or long-term maintainability
- Use AI-native development practices to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve quality and leverage
- Help establish thoughtful code review and pre-production quality practices that support fast, reliable delivery
- Lead technical direction for large, cross-team initiatives aligned to long-term platform strategy
- Design systems that balance flexibility, scalability, and maintainability
- Anticipate future constraints and evolve architecture before problems reach scale
- Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and architectural bottlenecks
- Drive early-stage exploration for ambiguous problems, including work where the answer becomes clear through prototyping and building
- Build infrastructure that embeds AI into engineering workflows
- Design tools and patterns that reduce manual effort through automation and intelligent assistance
- Create guardrails that support safe, reliable AI-assisted development
- Help define system behavior by capturing specifications from code, tests, logs, and the people closest to the work
- Raise the technical ceiling of the teams around you
- Drive alignment across teams and influence key technical decisions
- Reduce ambiguity and help teams make better decisions faster
- Create durable artifacts such as runbooks, decision logs, and tests that can be handed off and evolved by others
- Share context across product domains to help solve problems more effectively
Our take
For large-scale businesses, collecting and sharing data can be a complex and challenging process. Workiva solves this problem with its AI-powered data platform.
Workiva is one of the biggest players in the market, serving around 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Google and Delta. Workiva's controlled, secure and audit-ready platform has maintained a clear edge over much of its competition.
Workiva's quality product and its commitment to transparency has made it a firm favourite with companies around the world. If it can maintain this, it stands to consolidate its impressive growth even further in the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2014
$0.7m
EARLY VC
Dec 2012
$30.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.9m
Company HQ
Ames, IA
Leadership
Julie Iskow
(CEO)Julie joined Workiva in 2019 sa COO/President and became CEO in 2023. Previously, she served as the CTO at Medidate Solutions and as the CIO at WageWorks.
David Haila
(CTO)David has been at Workiva since 2009, joining the team as a Senior Software Engineer. Since then, he has held a number of roles and became CTO in 2023.
Jill Klindt
(CFO & EVP)Jill has been at Workiva since 2008, joining as a Controller before holding a number of roles and becoming CFO & EVP in 2023. Previously, she held Financial roles at Financial Intelligence, Wells Fargo Financial, CitiMortgage, and Principal Financial Group.
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