Senior Associate Software Development Engineer, Workday
Application Development
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
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Views software development as a team activity, and thrives in a highly collaborative, agile culture where you’re always teaching and learning
- 2+ years experience designing performant, scalable and resilient applications
- You understand the value of automated tests at all levels of the testing pyramid
- You have a strong desire to learn and continuously improve your craft
- You have experience with influencing the technical decisions made by a team
- You are a problem solver who is motivated by successfully shipping new features to production
- You have familiarity with, or a willingness to design, build, test, and monitor a service in production
What the job involves
- As part of the next generation of software application engineers, you will craft and develop high-quality, large scale enterprise cloud solutions, in an agile environment
- You will collaborate with software architects, product managers, and other partners to deliver solutions crafted to meet the needs of today's large global businesses
- Development is all done in the cloud, on a single codeline, through a continuous development model
- Solve challenging problems in an Application related to performance, scalability, and resilience
- Design and develop an OO product in a metadata driven development environment
- Write and maintain SOLID, robust, efficient and maintainable code using an OO framework and tools
- Write reliable unit, integration, and system level tests that will run on our CD pipeline
- Understand and promote industry best practice
- Mentor and learn from other team members through pairing, code reviews, knowledge shares, 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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