Workday

Backend Engineer

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1 day ago
Stockholm, SwedenMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design and decompose scalable services and APIs.
  • Build eventing and queue systems for reliable, high-throughput data flows.
  • Lead schema evolution, migrations, query and index optimization, and caching strategies.
  • Define consistency models and multi-region readiness.
  • Optimize performance budgets, privacy, and tenant isolation.
  • Implement reliable and maintainable distributed backend systems for enterprise-scale workloads.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with TypeScript/Node, Postgres, and distributed systems primitives.
  • Experience designing scalable services and APIs for high-volume enterprise workloads.
  • Experience with schema evolution, migrations, query and index optimization, caching, and consistency models.
  • Ability to address performance, privacy, tenant isolation, and multi-region requirements.
  • Familiarity with Kotlin, Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform is relevant to the stated technology stack.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office options.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations during the application process.
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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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