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Software Development Engineer

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Software Engineers design, develop, and deliver enterprise-grade solutions while mentoring team members and collaborating with multi-functional teams to solve complex problems.
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Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!
The Core Services organization is responsible for the foundational technology that powers Workday’s applications and platform products. We design, build, and support a highly-performant distributed system that handles complex workloads at the scale required by the world’s largest organizations. Our infrastructure runs across both Workday data centers and public cloud environments, executing mission-critical business processes, functions, and integrations. The organization's scope spans from the Gateway to the persistence layer, delivering the scalability, reliability, and efficiency needed to support Workday’s rapidly evolving product landscape.
Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.

About the Role

About the Role

Our Software Engineers deliver core features and services while collaborating with multiple partners and mentoring team members. We use mainly Java and Scala, and are pursuing Senior Software Engineers who have deep experience in multi-threading, concurrency, and solving exciting distributed systems design problems! You will be involved in all aspects of software development, including designing, coding, testing, deploying, while providing support for our customer-facing software solutions. 

Key responsibilities

  • Design, develop and deliver enterprise grade solutions with robust unit tests and metrics

  • Maintain continuous improvement within the team to ensure a high quality service

  • Delivering quality features on-time and on-budget and implementing towards project plans and delivery commitments

  • Handling the day-to-day development activities including participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation 

  • Mentor and learn from other team members through pairing, code reviews, knowledge shares, hackathons, etc.

  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams to drive technical initiatives.

About You

Basic Qualifications (Required)

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields (or equivalent experience)

  • 5+ years of experience with design and development for mission critical systems at scale

  • Fluency in Java or Scala, common design patterns with good grasp of distributed systems and ability to communicate design ideas effectively

  • Expertise in dealing with horizontal scale, high availability, concurrency, profiling, deployment, upgrade/migration, production support and other SaaS enterprise software issues

  • Proficient in major development tools and processes, such as source control, requirement spec, design and design review, unit test, system test, performance test, etc.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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Top Skills

Java
Scala

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