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 TeamAs we grow the Peakon engineering team at Workday, we are looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join one of your product teams based in Copenhagen. Peakon teams own their roadmap, work collaboratively and include engineering, UI/UX design, and product management.The Peakon team at Workday is driven by the belief that we can radically change the world of work. We believe that when an organization listens to employee feedback and empowers every employee to drive the change they want to see, it can build more fulfilling jobs and grow in ways never before envisioned.We’re in the business of creating great places to work, so it should be no surprise that being a great place to work is our highest priority. With ambitions as big as ours, we see individual growth and development as the key strategy for growing our business.Opportunity Onramps® is a pathway to relaunch your career in the technology industry regardless of your background. We recognize that people do not follow the same path in life or their career. The pause may have been taken for a whole host of reasons including but not limited to: caregiving, illness, unemployment, covid-19 impacts, immigration, asylum or refuge seeking needs. At Workday, we embrace the pause, and the unique perspectives it can provide.Through our Career Returner program, we provide on-the-job training and mentorship. Participants will make an impact at Workday by engaging in significant work, have access to many career growth and skill building opportunities; including networking, training, and ongoing professional development.About the RoleYour focus will be to contribute to the development, architecture, and evolution of the Peakon platform.You will be a key contributor in technical and architectural discussions within the backend engineering team, working closely with peers and engineering leads to set the technical direction for the platform.You will also work with peers, through regular code reviews and occasional pair programming.As part of the Peakon team at Workday, you'll:Be an integral member of a cross-functional team in an agile environmentCollaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and the team’s product manager to deliver exciting and impactful features for employees across all levels at companies who use Peakon everydayBuild features that help employees drive the change they want to see at their workplaceRegularly review and discuss other engineer’s codeContribute to architectural discussions with other engineers across all levelsUse your technical expertise to contribute towards building a best-in-class productOur TechWe make it a priority to stay on the cutting edge of tech. We are highly motivated by learning and growing in our roles, and constantly evolving is a key part of that.We believe there is great value in a shared toolchain, which is why our tech stack centers around JavaScript, with Node.js on the server and React on the frontend. To prevent runtime errors in our frontend applications, we have recently introduced TypeScript. Ultimately we believe that our tech stack needs to evolve as our industry evolves.We are hosted on AWS and we use PostgreSQL (through RDS), Redis and ElasticSearch for storage. We rely heavily on automated testing on all levels of the application, with thousands of tests checking every commit to our code base. We use Buildkite for continuous integration to make sure our most recent changes are always available to test, and we deploy code to our production environment every day.About YouBasic Qualifications1-3 years of experience with backend developmentYou have worked in a team setting, using collaborative tools for version control, code reviews and project managementCareer Returner QualificationsMust have a minimum of three years of prior professional experience and a break from their engineer career for at least one and a half years.Must be available to start August or September 2023Other QualificationsYou are familiar with a Node.js based ecosystem or willing to put in the extra work at the beginning to make the switchYou have experience building web applications with an understanding of scalability, high availability, latency and throughputYou are open to opinions of others and constructively discuss solutions to find the best one for the challenge at handYou have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English* Please note we are not offering relocation for this role.Are you being referred to one of our roles? 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