Senior Engineer (Tech Lead) - Talent Product Development

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About the Team

The Talent Acquisition Product Development team is at the heart of Workday Recruiting, empowering recruiters to quickly and effectively collaborate with hiring managers to grow their teams, nurture internal and external candidate relationships from source to hire, and deliver a delightful, personalised candidate experience.

As we embrace new ways of working with AI, we are focused on opening up our platform through API development and agentic tooling — creating new possibilities for how our customers interact with and extend Workday Recruiting.

Our team provides a highly collaborative and autonomous environment where we continuously question the status quo and deliver meaningful improvements for our customers. We are a team built on mutual trust and respect, and we strive to show our values through actions, not just words — and that includes having fun along the way.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineer / Tech Lead on the Talent Acquisition Product Development team, you will be a hands-on technical leader working closely with scrum teams, product managers, and business partners across product boundaries. You will design and build scalable, highly performant, and resilient solutions that support the needs of our 60 million+ users around the world. A key focus of this role will be building APIs on top of new and existing functionality, as well as developing the agentic tooling layer that sits above them. All development is cloud-native, on a single codeline, enabling rapid iteration through our continuous development model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and development of scalable, highly performant, and highly available enterprise application solutions — including APIs and agentic tooling — that directly impact our global user base.

• Innovate constantly while delivering efficient, robust, and maintainable code within an object-oriented framework.

• Champion code quality by delivering reliable unit, integration, and system-level tests that run on our continuous delivery pipeline, ensuring robust and stable production systems.

• Partner effectively with product managers and senior partners to shape and drive the product vision.

• Communicate complex technical ideas simply and effectively to support informed decision-making with senior leadership.

• Coach and mentor team members to deliver to high standards, actively contributing to pair programming, interactive code reviews, design reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and innovation-focused hackathons.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with local and remote technical teams, ensuring we consistently deliver the best possible solutions to our customers.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with web application development and/or SaaS (Software as a Service).

• 2+ years experience with Python

• Extensive development experience with object-oriented languages at a senior level (e.g., Java, C#, Python).

• A deep understanding of software engineering principles (e.g., design patterns, data structures, algorithms) and the ability to demonstrate their application in recent project work.

Other Qualifications

• A collaborative team player with clear communication skills who proactively solves problems and takes full accountability for your code from development through production.

• Experience leading the technical delivery of innovative and complex business functionality.

• Understanding of performance engineering and performance testing principles.

• Team leadership and/or Agile leadership experience.

• Experience with integration technologies (e.g., RESTful APIs, message queues).

• Exposure to modern UI technologies such as React.

• Experience with metadata-driven development, contributing to highly configurable and adaptable platforms.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

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