Workday

Overview

As an Engineer on the UI and Tooling Server team, you will design, build, and operate the backend services at the core of Workday's Developer Platform. You will work primarily across a JVM stack Java and Kotlin, Spring Boot running on AWS and Kubernetes owning features end to end.

About Workday

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.

Requirements & Eligibility

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering with a strong focus on backend microservice architectures and distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin, with production Spring Boot experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with Containerization and orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes.
• 3+ years operating production services you own — including observability, SLO-based alerting, and on-call.
• Hands-on experience with AI-augmented development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver backend microservices and developer-facing UI features end to end.
• Build and evolve well-governed public and internal APIs, applying versioning, backward compatibility, and security standards.
• Operate what you build in a cloud-native environment — instrumenting services with metrics, logging, and SLO-based alerting.
• Integrate AI and agentic capabilities into the platform, including large language model integrations and real-time streaming interfaces.
• Use AI-augmented development tools as a daily part of your workflow.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers across teams to break ambiguous requirements into well-scoped, executable work.
• Raise the technical bar through code review, design feedback, pairing, and strong test automation.