Software Development Engineer, Workday
Backend, Flowise
CA$106.4-159.6k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$106.4-159.6k
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 of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience building backend services with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including schema design and data modeling
- Backend Architecture Skills: Experience designing APIs, backend systems, authentication layers, storage models, and service abstractions
- Cloud & DevOps Awareness: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, and containerized services (Docker a plus)
- Problem Solving & Ownership: Ability to break down ambiguous problems, propose solutions, and execute with clarity and independence
- Collaboration & Communication: Experience working effectively in cross functional teams, providing clear updates, and resolving technical ambiguities
- Bonus: experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AgentSDK, etc.), monorepo environments, and plugin based architectures
What the job involves
- Flowise is Workday’s newly acquired open source visual builder for AI agents and workflows. Our mission is to make it simple for anyone to build powerful AI driven solutions without needing deep expertise in machine learning or complex frameworks
- Flowise powers chatbots, autonomous agents, and custom AI workflows through an intuitive low code canvas. With Workday, we are expanding Flowise into a multi edition platform open source, cloud enterprise, and a deeply integrated Workday Extend version enabling customers and partners to build faster, innovate more, and deliver value quickly and responsibly
- This is an opportunity to join the foundational engineering team shaping the future of Flowise inside Workday
- We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer who is passionate about designing robust, scalable, and high quality backend systems. You will work across Flowise’s server side components, APIs, data models, and runtime execution engine, contributing to core platform capabilities used by developers, partners, and customers
- Design and build backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and modern API patterns to power Flowise’s runtime and platform features
- Improve performance, latency, security, and reliability across our open source, cloud, and enterprise editions
- Develop clean, maintainable data models and improve backend architecture to support scalable AI agent execution and workflow orchestration
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to translate requirements into backend solutions that feel simple on the surface but are powerful under the hood
- Drive engineering excellence by participating in design reviews, writing tests, improving observability, and influencing backend best practices
- Debug and solve complex problems in distributed, real time, and multi tenant execution environments
- (Optional but encouraged) Engage with our open source Flowise community through contributions, issue triage, and architectural discussions
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
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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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