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Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver platform modernization, product evolution, and new product initiatives.
- Lead technical strategy and architectural decisions across large, multi-team initiatives.
- Define scalable system boundaries and address performance, data flow, reliability, and architectural bottlenecks.
- Design AI-driven systems, context-aware infrastructure, validation layers, static analysis, and automation hooks.
- Lead exploration, prototyping, and validation of ambiguous technical problems.
- Partner on disaster recovery planning, testing, and optimization.
- Mentor Staff+ engineers and influence engineering and product leadership.
- Create durable runbooks, decision logs, tests, and other artifacts for continued team ownership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; alternatively, 6+ years with a Master’s degree, a PhD with 4+ years of experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience using AI as a primary development collaborator while maintaining a strong quality bar for AI-generated output.
- Preferred experience leading large cross-pillar technical initiatives and delivering across platform modernization, iterative product development, and greenfield work.
- Strong architectural judgment in distributed systems, APIs, and platform design.
- Preferred experience with TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, or mutation testing.
- Experience building infrastructure that improves engineering velocity and quality at scale.
- Ability to infer behavioral specifications from code, tests, logs, existing systems, and subject-matter experts.
- Strong written communication, durable documentation habits, and an empowering leadership style.
Benefits
- Workiva supports working from an office or remotely from any location within the employee’s country of employment.
- Up to 15% travel is required for team jams and an internal developer conference.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
- Employees receive comprehensive role-tailored security and privacy training.
Categories
AI ApplicationsGrowth Engineering
About Workiva
Workiva builds a cloud platform for connected financial, regulatory, and ESG reporting used by finance, accounting, risk, and audit teams at enterprises and government agencies. Its SaaS products support SEC and SEDAR filings, SOX/internal controls, enterprise risk management, and audit-ready collaboration with data linking and workflow automation. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Ames, Iowa, Workiva is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker WK.