Frontend Engineer, Workday
React with Python
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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
- We’re looking for someone who is excited about building industry leading applications that will be used by millions of users daily and passionate about the user experience
- The successful candidate is also a team player who understands and promotes industry best practices, and who excels at finding interesting and innovative ways to build and test front and backend code
- You love working in high-performing teams to achieve ambitious, shared goals such as building Workday’s first in house AI agent, designing and building Workday’s AI agent platform or applying AI in new ways to help our customers
- 4-5 years proven experience developing software in a commercial environment
- 2+ years experience in developing web applications in React
- 3+ years demonstrated ability in developing web applications in HTML5/CSS/JS using frameworks/libraries
- 1+ years’ experience in developing web applications in Python using web frameworks/libraries eg Flask/FastAPI
- Experience of working in an agile, fast paced continuous delivery environment
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably Computer Science/Engineering
- Experience working with ML and a curiosity about venturing into the backend service when needed to take on end-to-end problems would be an advantage
What the job involves
- The field of machine learning and gen ai has been fuelled by recent technological advances allowing software products to become context aware and adapted to the needs of individual users
- Workday is investing in building products that leverage these technologies because of a strong continued focus on providing a top-class user experience for its customers
- Due to this investment, we are recruiting a Full-stack Developer to join the AI & Guidance team in Dublin
- Our team is building the AI agent platform for Workday products, enabling teams across Workday to bring better AI agents and tools to market faster and in a more scalable way
- This is a Full-stack Senior Software Engineer role within the AI & Guidance team in Workday
- Our mission is to help our 55+ million users become even more productive in Workday
- We are achieving this by building new AI features and platforms to enable our users to successfully achieve their goals
- Developing for scale has been part of Workday's DNA since the beginning
- We are serving employees in over 60% of the Fortune 500 companies worldwide, using a modern fully cloud native solution
- Work in a motivated, multi-disciplinary scrum team working on the cutting edge of AI at Workday
- Demonstrate technical awareness, vision and influencing skills in your interactions with the people outside your immediate team/org
- Work across the front-end (React) and back-end (Python)
- And finally: Have fun engineering software!
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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