Software Development Engineer, Workday
Payroll
$136-204k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$136-204k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience with Web application development or SaaS (Software as a Service); UML is a plus
- This position is very technical – the ideal candidate must be proficient in programming techniques, object-oriented languages, object modeling, and application programming design
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Hands-on experience in building sophisticated rules based logic with many variables in distributed, and highly concurrent systems
- Profound understanding of Object Oriented programming
- Experience building large-scale enterprise-level software with a focus on performance, scalability, and security
- Familiarity with software development practices, agile methodologies, and lean principles
- You have a track record of ensuring that features meet requirements and that stakeholders are kept up to date throughout the development lifecycle
- Proven track of ownership and taking accountability
- Experience with XML and Integration technologies
What the job involves
- Join a hardworking, multifaceted and passionate team delivering a new generation of on-demand enterprise solutions for the Payroll product
- You work closely with your product manager and team members on US specific compliance features
- You collaborate with your team following agile and test-driven development practices
- As a Software Application Engineer at Workday, you will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle in a metadata-driven development scrum team
- During the analysis phase, you will collaborate with Product Managers and QA to review and refine requirements for the product
- During the design, you will take functional input and build a technical design that best implements these requirements
- This will include crafting a model of business objects and their relationships, which represents the functional domain as specified in the functional analysis
- You will work primarily with Workday’s proprietary development stack, while having some exposure to other full-stack development teams
- During the implementation, you will build all technical artifacts required to realize the system functionality
- Partnering with QA and Automation peers, you will be responsible for the quality of the delivered product during the testing phase
- This includes the creation of test cases for all business processes, the execution of test scripts, and the resolution of any problems identified by the test scripts
- Fix customer reported issues. Mentor and learn from other team members through pair programming, code reviews, knowledge sharing, hackathons, etc
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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