Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer, Workday

Salary not provided

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Elasticsearch

Redis

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Elixir

Phoenix

JIRA

Keep

Confluence

Slack

Zoom

Rails

Ruby on Rails

JSON

REST API

Mid and Senior level

Dublin

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance

Job no longer available

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Elasticsearch

Redis

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Elixir

Phoenix

JIRA

Keep

Confluence

Slack

Zoom

Rails

Ruby on Rails

JSON

REST API

Mid and Senior level

Dublin

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Company mission

To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Minimum 3+ years software development experience. (Senior and Intermediate roles available)
Minimum 2+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails

Desirable

Proficiency with PostgreSQL (or equivalent SQL database) and optimizing queries
Proposes pragmatic solutions to painful problems
Find opportunities to teach others
Experience working within large codebases and/or web applications
Loves to understand and discuss the value our work delivers to customers
Kindly and consistently pushes the team forward, but knows how to pick their battles

What the job involves

We are looking for Ruby on Rails Software Engineers to help us keep shipping features to customers who love our products. We have opportunities for different experience levels
As a member of our team, you'll be responsible for turning these ideas into reality
Our teams are cross functional with specialties in different areas working together on a common solution
N order to guarantee the highest quality in our releases, our QA team diligently works to identify and resolve any issues before launch
Our application is built on Ruby 3 and Rails 7, we also have a sprinkle of Python
Our backend and frontend talk using GraphQL
Our customers can consume our data using our Public JSON Rest API or webhooks
AWS is our product's home
We're really enjoying React, Typescript, and SCSS
Sidekiq, Redis, ElasticSearch and WebSocket play their parts in our overall solution
Agile development with deployments to production every 2 weeks
We continuously work with product owners to agree on reasonable deadlines
Jira, Slack, Zoom and calendars help us coordinate and communicate across continents and time zones
Documentation is important to us, and we use Confluence to keep things evolving
GitLab helps us improve each other's code and our well-tuned linter keeps reviews light on style and heavy on substance
Our QA team works hard to catch issues, bugs, and cross-browser glitches before we merge a pull request into the mainline, and again before release in the bi-weekly smoke test
GitLab CI empowers us to continually improve
As part of our team, you'll be tasked with turning high-level ideas and designs into fully accessible and functional features
You'll be hands-on with modern robust technology and our automated testing suite
You'll play a significant role by helping to influence and deliver our team's milestones working with other WDAY Product stakeholders, designers, platform engineers and more

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

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (1.1)

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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