Senior Associate Software Engineer, Workday
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Is a software engineer able to learn and chip in to a solution that scales to 1000s of users, while not requiring an army of heroes to maintain
- Will help and contribute to building, testing and deploying this solution
- Will be able to disagree and commit when needed
- Will also be able to collaborate with team members in their technical growth, as well as help the team implement the best software development practices
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of shown experience in software development, including proficiency in Java, ReactJS
- Experience with Relational and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) databases
- Good knowledge in developing Microservices, distributed systems, concurrency, multithreading and design principles
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Desirable
- Experience in Linux Shell Scripting, Bash Scripting, and Jenkins
- Any experience to AWS or GCP stack (SDK, EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Route53, S3, GCE, GSC, VPC) is a plus
- Some level of understanding in Ruby on Rails, Scala
- Experience with Agile Principles and standard methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- A strong drive for success and a proactive approach to personal growth, with a commitment to continuous learning
What the job involves
- Workday currently has a position open for a Sr Associate Software Engineer within the Engineering Environments team
- This team builds scalable, cloud based instances of the Workday stack for Workday developers and testers, as well as the Workday Continuous Delivery pipeline
- In support of the increasing demand, we are growing our team delivering Cloud based services which meet Workday’s Operational, Performance, Management and Operational needs
- This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a world-class Engineering team in Dublin, Ireland
- Work with geographically distributed teams to deliver development and testing environments in an automated, scalable, stable, self service way to our end users
- Use your fixing and triage skills to provide assistance to solve sophisticated operational and end users issues
- Implement improvement initiatives such as methodologies, standards, processes, and tools to make teams more efficient
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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