Workiva, Inc

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Workiva, Inc$151K — $242K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in enterprise software systems development
  • Proven experience in leading technical strategy across teams
  • Hands-on experience with AI as a key development partner
  • Familiarity with quality improvement methodologies like TDD or BDD
  • Strong systems thinking with awareness of second-order effects
  • Ability to operate as a force multiplier for teams
  • Depth in system design or developer experience

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering teams on complex platform and product initiatives
  • Adapt development approaches to project needs for speed, scale, or maintainability
  • Utilize AI-driven practices for improved quality through automation
  • Establish effective code review and quality practices for reliable delivery
  • Lead the technical direction for significant, cross-team projects
  • Design systems for flexibility, scalability, and future-proofing
  • Identify and resolve architectural and performance bottlenecks
  • Conduct early-stage explorations for ambiguous technical challenges

Benefits

  • Discretionary annual bonus plan
  • Restricted Stock Units granted upon hire
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Flexible work environment—office or remote options
  • Comprehensive employee benefits package
Full Job Description
We9re hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer who can lead across complex technical work, act as a force multiplier for other engineers, and help shape how teams build in an AI-enabled environment. This is a hands-on role for someone who can contribute directly to design and implementation while also raising the technical bar across the organization.

What You9ll Do

Deliver outcomes
  • Partner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution, and new product initiatives.
  • Adapt your approach to match the needs of the work, whether the priority is speed, scale, or long-term maintainability.
  • Use AI-native development practices to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve quality and leverage.
  • Help establish thoughtful code review and pre-production quality practices that support fast, reliable delivery.

Execute technical strategy
  • Lead technical direction for large, cross-team initiatives aligned to long-term platform strategy.
  • Design systems that balance flexibility, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Anticipate future constraints and evolve architecture before problems reach scale.
  • Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and architectural bottlenecks.
  • Drive early-stage exploration for ambiguous problems, including work where the answer becomes clear through prototyping and building.

Develop AI systems and platform enablement
  • Build infrastructure that embeds AI into engineering workflows.
  • Design tools and patterns that reduce manual effort through automation and intelligent assistance.
  • Create guardrails that support safe, reliable AI-assisted development.
  • Help define system behavior by capturing specifications from code, tests, logs, and the people closest to the work.

Influence and lead
  • Raise the technical ceiling of the teams around you.
  • Drive alignment across teams and influence key technical decisions.
  • Reduce ambiguity and help teams make better decisions faster.
  • Create durable artifacts such as runbooks, decision logs, and tests that can be handed off and evolved by others.
  • Share context across product domains to help solve problems more effectively.


What You9ll Need

Minimum Qualifications
  • 6+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software systems.
  • Experience leading technical strategy and architecture across teams.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI development, including shipping real work with AI as a primary development collaborator.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience driving high-impact initiatives across multiple teams
  • Experience improving engineering quality through TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, mutation testing, or similar approaches.
  • Strong systems thinking and judgment, including awareness of second-order effects.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in at least two delivery modes: platform modernization, iterative product evolution, and high-ambition greenfield development.
  • Ability to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers.
  • Depth in a domain that materially improves system design or developer experience.
  • Proven experience operating at Staff+ level across multiple teams or domains.
  • Strong background in distributed systems and platform architecture.
  • Experience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts.
  • Ability to deliver production-quality outcomes in a small, time-boxed team setting.
  • Strong written communication skills and a habit of creating useful, durable artifacts.


How You9ll Be Rewarded
020202 Salary range in the US: $151,000.00 - $242,000.00
020202 A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
020202 Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
020202 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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About Workiva, Inc

Workiva Inc. is a global software company headquartered in Ames, Iowa. The company provides cloud-based solutions for connected reporting and compliance, enabling collaboration and data integration for enterprises. Workiva's platform offers a suite of tools for data management, reporting, and compliance, including SOX, SEC, and XBRL reporting. The company's customers include more than 75% of the Fortune 500 and over 2,800 enterprises worldwide. Workiva was founded in 2008 and went public in 2014.
Learn more about Workiva, Inc
Size
2,106 employees
Market Cap
$4.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$48.4 million
Founded
2008
5 Year Trend
+19.9%
Revenue
$351.5 million
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