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 TeamWe’re looking for a highly technical Core Java developer to join a highly impactful core engineering team developing one of Workday’s central processing frameworks.Our Team:* We are experts in concurrent and distributed systems and are responsible for Workday’s core framework known as Job Framework.* We are passionate about technology and look to apply the appropriate technology as opposed to writing it ourselves* We provide core technologies to other Workday development teams and infrastructure.About the RoleAre you passionate about designing and building large scale distributed systems? Does leading edge technology rock your world? Are you curious about distributed transaction processing, in-memory object graphs, large scale resource fairness and interested in developing compute frameworks that scale to the biggest enterprises in the world?Responsibilities:Work primarily on backend frameworks applying your concurrent programming experience; collaborate with peers on technical design, work estimates and implementation of new features.Collaborate with architects, principal engineers and technical product managers to analyse functional requirements, devise architecture designs for highly performant distributed systems that meet stringent high availability requirements (99.999% uptime).Design and develop prototypes and features in Agile Methodology. Breakdown efforts into tasks and spikes. Highlight intra and inter-team dependencies. Prioritise incoming issues vs. assigned tasks to help insure the successful conclusion of the sprint planning objectives.Work with extended teams to insure a smooth rollout of functionality by coordinating with other product teams (infrastructure and applications), product management, QA engineering, operations and customer support, documentation/training and sales demo.Perform peer code reviews as part of everyday workflow.Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment, and code quality.Take the initiative to research new frameworks, tools, and libraries to remain abreast of current and emerging technologies. Propose and execute on mini-research/prototype projects that introduce an innovative solution to new or existing problem.Be an evangelist of our technologies and products. Communicate across multiple teams to showcase new features and functionalities.Actively mentor junior developers to enhance their technical expertise and grow the team.About YouYou:You have a passion for distributed systems and relish delivering them at cloud scaleYou love to solve problems with code and prove it through automated testsYou have designed, built, tested, owned and monitored a service in production.You are excited by shipping new features and know that delivering to production takes more than just codingYou strive to understand the big picture and given the choice, you would prefer to collaborate with product owners, architects, quality assurance and infrastructure than to go it aloneYou are continuously growing your skillsBasic Qualifications3+ years of software engineering experience utilising Java.Other QualificationsJavaKotlinTrack record of test driven development & automated system testing.Commercial experience with distributed, concurrent, high-performance systemsInterest or experience in one or more of the following is advantageous: MySQL, Redis, Kafka or ZookeeperUnix or Linux experienceBS in Computer Science or related fields. Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
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