Workday

Software Development Engineer

Workday$130K — $195K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering full stack features at production scale.
  • 5+ years in JVM-based backend development (Java or Kotlin) with Spring Boot proficiency.
  • 5+ years of proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, particularly with React.
  • 3+ years of experience deploying and operating production services in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS).
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to turn high-level requirements into actionable engineering work.
  • Maintain API governance and engineering best practices for public-facing services, ensuring versioning and security standards.
  • Create clear technical documentation for features and contribute to the internal engineering knowledge base.
  • Evaluate effort, risk, and priority for planning upcoming features during release management.
  • Own services through their full lifecycle, including incident response and reliability improvements.
  • Enhance team productivity by proposing process and engineering best practices.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule allowing for both remote and in-office time (50% in-person per quarter).
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI and agentic systems.
  • Collaborative team environment that focuses on developer productivity.
  • Potential participation in the Workday Bonus Plan and stock grants as part of the compensation package.
Full Job Description

About the Team

The Developer Agent team's mission is to empower developers to work in the environment that best suits them—whether that’s their preferred local IDE or Workday Extend's App Builder—while providing intelligent, context-aware tooling that deeply understands the Workday platform. We are creating a seamless development experience powered by AI agents that assist with coding, platform navigation, automation, troubleshooting, and application development workflows.

As part of this team, you will work at the intersection of developer productivity, AI, and platform engineering, building next-generation tools that enhance how thousands of developers build Extend apps.

About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer on the Developer Agent team, you will design and build core platform capabilities that advance Workday toward more AI powered agentic developer experiences and workflows . This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership, takes pride in well-tested and maintainable code, and is energized by building agentic tools that other external developers rely on every day.

In this role, you will:

  • Collaborate closely with peer engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate high level requirements into well-scoped, executable engineering work.

  • Uphold API governance and engineering best practices within the team, including versioning, backward compatibility, and security standards for public-facing surfaces.

  • Write clear technical documentation for your features and contribute to internal engineering knowledge bases.

  • Contribute to release planning by evaluating the effort, risk, and priority of planned features.

  • Own services through their full lifecycle, including incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements

  • Help improve team productivity by contributing to process improvements and engineering best practices

About You

Basic Qualifications
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering full stack features at production scale.

  • 5+ years of experience in JVM-based backend development (Java or Kotlin), with proficiency in the Spring Boot framework.

  • 5+ years of proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, including experience with React.

  • 3+ years hands-on experience deploying and operating production services in a cloud-native environments like GCP or AWS.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Other Qualifications
  • AI & Agentic Systems: Familiarity with large language model integration strategies, such as OpenAI-compatible APIs, data streaming, and tool/function calling. Basic understanding of agentic architectures and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a producer or consumer.

  • Agentic Coding Tools: Hands on experience with AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or Cline.

  • Backend API Development: Comfortable implementing real-time streaming (SSE/WebSockets) and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

  • Frontend & React: Proficiency in modern frontend technologies including React, HTML, and CSS to deliver high-quality developer-facing interfaces. 

  • Code Quality & Testing: A strong commitment to testing methodologies using frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, JUnit, Cypress, & similar. 

The following are advantageous but not required:

  • Familiarity with LangChain or comparable LLM orchestration frameworks

  • Hands-on experience with cloud development technologies and platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Helm) is a plus


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location: USA.CO.BoulderPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $130,400 USD - $195,600 USD


 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD

Additional Considerations:

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
 

06/30/2026



Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Other Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Learn more about Workday
Size
15,932 employees
Market Cap
$42.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+26.7%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
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