Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Agent Platform
About The Position
The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will join Workday’s Platform Consumption Console (PCC) team, which builds infrastructure for usage data ingestion, billing calculations, and customer-facing controls supporting flexible, usage-based products such as Workday Agents. Working in a small, cross-functional pod, the engineer will design and deliver full-stack solutions, from front-end experiences to resilient backend services, integrating AI-driven capabilities into HR and Finance workflows. The role contributes to PCC’s evolution into core enterprise infrastructure and addresses large-scale engineering challenges, including processing daily usage metrics, maintaining accurate financial ledgers, and building customer dashboards. The team offers an opportunity to help define technical strategy and standards within a focused platform organization. The posting lists qualifications at Principal (P5), Senior (P4), and Mid-Level (P3) levels. It also describes flexible work combining in-person and remote work: teams spend at least half of each quarter in the office or in the field, depending on the role. Remote home-office roles may also come together in offices for important occasions.
Requirements
- For Principal (P5): 12+ years of software development engineering experience, including leading technical initiatives, designing complex systems, and ensuring software scalability and maintainability.
- For Principal (P5): 5+ years writing performant backend services using Java Spring Boot, Go, Python, or another modern object-oriented language.
- For Principal (P5): 5+ years of React and TypeScript experience for front-end or full-stack development.
- For Principal (P5): Experience designing full-stack applications end to end.
- For Principal (P5): Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- For Senior (P4): 8+ years of software development engineering experience, including designing, developing, and deploying software solutions.
- For Senior (P4): 5+ years of experience with a web development framework; Python or Java is strongly preferred.
- For Senior (P4): 5+ years of backend development or data engineering experience, particularly in a cloud environment such as AWS.
- For Senior (P4): Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- For Mid-Level (P3): 5+ years of software development engineering experience, including designing, developing, and deploying software solutions.
- For Mid-Level (P3): 2+ years of experience with a web development framework; Python or Java is strongly preferred.
- For Mid-Level (P3): 2+ years of backend development or data engineering experience, particularly in a cloud environment such as AWS.
- Algorithmic thinking, including distributed data processing and memory management, to create efficient solutions for large-scale ETL transformations and PySpark job optimization.
- Working knowledge of API development, RESTful principles, and AWS API Gateway integration, and experience building lightweight interfaces for backend service interaction.
- Understanding of code-testing methodologies, including unit testing for data pipelines and integration testing, and experience with PyTest or similar frameworks.
- Understanding of object-oriented design principles such as SOLID and modularity, and their application to reusable data-transformation components.
- Understanding of software development principles and proficiency in Python and Infrastructure as Code, specifically CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
- Experience with source control tools such as Git and branching strategies such as Trunk-Based Development, with a focus on collaborative CI/CD workflows.
- Ability to collaborate on a software development team, including participating in code reviews and architectural whiteboarding.
- Skills in technical documentation for state-machine logic flows, ETL schemas, and deployment playbooks.
Nice To Haves
- For Principal (P5), a master’s degree is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship full-stack solutions, including user-facing experiences and backend services.
- Integrate AI-driven capabilities into HR and Finance workflows.
- Build and support infrastructure for usage-data ingestion, billing calculations, and customer-facing controls.
- Address large-scale usage-metric processing and financial-ledger accuracy challenges.
- Build dashboards for enterprise customers.
- Contribute to technical strategy and establish technical standards.
- Design and implement efficient large-scale ETL transformations and optimize PySpark jobs.
- Develop APIs and lightweight interfaces for backend service interaction.
- Test data pipelines and integrations to ensure calculation accuracy.
- Document state-machine logic flows, ETL schemas, and deployment playbooks.
- Collaborate with the software development team through code reviews, architectural whiteboarding, and CI/CD workflows.
Benefits
- May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
- May be eligible for annual refresh stock grants.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
