Software Development Engineer

Overview

Your days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people, customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money and agents, we shape the future of work so teams can reach their potential. When you join, you’ll feel it in the products we build and in how we show up for each other.

Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy and shared enthusiasm. We tackle big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care.

The Developer Tooling team builds AI‑powered tools that enable our users – an open ecosystem of external developers – to build on Workday products with greater speed and effectiveness. The team serves a dynamic user base from administrators with little development history to professional developers. We provide a range of product offerings: a low‑code and no‑code browser editing experience, plugins for traditional IDEs and CLI tooling.

In this role you will work closely with engineers, product managers and cross‑functional peers to turn business goals into well‑scoped, high‑quality engineering work.

As a Full Stack Developer on the Developer Tooling team, you will help shape the tools that define how developers build on Workday. You will work across the stack – from React‑based interfaces to Node.js backend services – delivering features for App Builder, the Workday CLI and other developer‑facing products. Your work will directly impact how easily developers can adopt, extend and build on the Workday platform.

• Contribute to and deliver new and existing features for App Builder, the CLI and other developer tools with a focus on scalability, performance and a high‑quality developer experience.
• Collaborate with peers, product owners and designers to scope, plan and ship features in an agile environment.
• Discover and troubleshoot issues within the existing architecture and codebase, identifying opportunities for improvement and keeping the platform healthy.
• Support developer‑facing documentation, onboarding flows and tooling improvements that make the platform easier to adopt and extend.
• Contribute to release planning by evaluating effort, risk and priority of planned features.
• Help improve team productivity by contributing to process improvements and engineering best practices.

• 4+ years of professional experience building and supporting multi‑tier or full‑stack web software.
• 4+ years of deep proficiency in Type Script/JavaScript, including mandatory experience with React.
• 4+ years of experience in Node.js for backend service development.
• 4+ years of experience developing RESTful APIs and managing complex third‑party API integrations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Familiarity with large language model integration strategies (OpenAI‑compatible APIs, data streaming, tool/function calling), with an understanding of agentic architectures and the Model Context Protocol.
• Experience engineering production‑grade backend services, including real‑time streaming (SSE/Web Sockets).
• Knowledge of Kotlin or Spring Boot is a plus.
• Proficiency in modern frontend technologies (React, HTML, CSS) and experience using design systems and reusable component libraries.
• Commitment to testing methodologies using Jest, React Testing Library, JUnit, Cypress or similar.
• Experience with application observability (Sentry, metrics instrumentation, product analytics) and familiarity with CI/CD workflows via Git Hub Actions, Jenkins or similar.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, experience with shared dependencies such as security and compliance reviews, and appreciation for technical writing.
• Experience creating CLI tools using Node.js or Go; experience with cloud development technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Helm); experience with design systems or component libraries; hands‑on experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code are advantageous but not required.

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