Workday

Software Development Engineer - Developer Platform

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5 days ago
Boulder, CO, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain front-end surfaces for the Workday Developer Portal within established micro-frontend boundaries and shared component patterns.
  • Contribute to developer tooling and build infrastructure, including local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, linting, and testing setups.
  • Implement features and fixes based on technical direction from senior and principal engineers, gaining increasing autonomy over implementation details.
  • Work with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver well-scoped engineering work.
  • Apply API governance, versioning, backward compatibility, and security standards to public-facing surfaces.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and pairing sessions.
  • Improve developer-facing documentation, onboarding flows, and platform adoption tooling.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of software engineering experience, including ownership of production web application features or components.
  • At least 4 years of experience building front-end applications with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.
  • At least 4 years of client-side experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, including authentication, error handling, and data fetching patterns.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure and basic logging and monitoring practices.
  • Exposure to micro-frontend architectures, shared component libraries, or design systems.
  • Familiarity with build tooling such as Webpack, Vite, or GitHub Actions.
  • Understanding of REST, GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC concepts.
  • Ability to execute well-scoped technical work independently and collaborate effectively across product, engineering, and design teams.
  • Advantageous qualifications include exposure to agentic AI, LLM-backed services, agent frameworks, MCP, developer portals, API catalogs, self-serve onboarding, multi-product or multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise workforce-management domains, developer relations, or technical writing.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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