Software Development Engineer - API Gateways

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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!
Join our dynamic team responsible for the API Gateway at Workday, which spans across Pleasanton, CA and Dublin IR. Our service is the critical entry point for extensive integrations, ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient communication. We handle high volumes of traffic, performing crucial API gateway functions. We build and maintain a robust, scalable system using innovative technologies. We believe that mistakes are invaluable opportunities for growth, and we continuously learn from them to improve. If you're passionate about building high-performance, distributed systems and thrive in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you!

About the Role

As a Software Development Engineer, you are responsible for delivering customer-focused, high-quality, and performant features, with a strong focus on problem solving, network operations, and Scala development. You are passionate about building high-performance, scalable systems. You understand how to work with cross-region team collaboration with different time zones. You have empathy and you are business focused to tackle problems, ensuring a positive customer experience, while balancing the reliability and scalability of Workday's API Gateway.

We need a teammate who:

• Is a self-starter and takes ownership.

• Delivers valuable results, focusing on simplicity and quality.

• Adapts easily to changes and handles challenges.

• Contributes innovative ideas and takes calculated risks.

• Collaborates well across differences and respects others.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain our API Gateway services using Scala, Akka HTTP, and Akka Streams.

• Implement robust routing, validation, authentication, and transformation logic.

• Contribute to the development of highly scalable and resilient distributed systems.

• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.

• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Diagnose and resolve production issues, including on-call support.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Contribute to improving the efficiency and reliability of our services

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 3-5 years of software development experience.

• Proficiency in Scala or Java.

• Experience with APIs and HTTP protocols.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, a sense of ownership, vitality, and drive.

• Experience working with JSON, XML, SOAP, REST, POSTMAN, Gradle

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications

• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts with fault-tolerant software experiences.

• Experience with Akka HTTP and Akka Stream is a plus.

• Intermediate level understanding and experience with containerized applications such as Kubernetes (K8), AWS cloud services and technologies.

• A collaborative and team-oriented mentality.

• A desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment.

• An initiative to improve processes and code.

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.

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