Senior Fullstack Engineer - Search Assistant (US Federal)

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About the Team

We are a distributed team that builds cloud-scale services that power the Workday users search experience for millions of users every day across the world. Our mission is to build a scalable search experience platform to enhance findability and discoverability that powers seamless experiences across multiple surfaces, including web, mobile, and slack.
We use modern technologies, clean code, and automated testing to ensure long-term success. If you're passionate about enhancing user experiences, thrive in a full-stack environment, and take pride in high-quality code, join our dedicated, high-performing team—Apply Now! 🚀

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native)

We're seeking driven problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment, delivering customer value quickly and making an impact. Ideal candidates will be exceptionally strong individual contributors, self-starters who tackle complex problems, create innovative solutions, and mentor others. You'll collaborate with Product Managers, UX, design, and research to solve real user challenges.

As a Sr Software Development Engineer in IDX Search Assistant team, you will:

• Write and maintain robust, efficient, and testable code using top-tier languages, frameworks, and tools, including React, Kotlin, Java, Python, TypeScript, Cypress, CI/CD, Jenkins, Gradle.

• Support services and customers in the production environment in specific environments from frontend to backend.

• Use your proven troubleshooting and triaging skills to resolve escalated production and customer issues.

• Work with other engineers to constantly enhance methodologies, standards, processes, and tools, increasing team efficiency.

• Design and lead meaningful features with a strong focus on non-functional requirements. (scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, usability and quality etc).

• Be a flexible teammate as part of a fast-paced product development team

• Suggest enhancements for the product and build pipelines. 

• Operate as a self-starter who can effectively manage numerous projects simultaneously, meet aggressive deadlines, and thrive in a multifaceted environment.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Object-Oriented Design and Programming experience building scalable systems enterprise-level software with a focus on performance, scalability and security as part of a multi-functional team. (Kotlin/Java/Spring Boot or functional programming background preferred)

• 3+ years experience in front-end development; creating RESTful Web applications, developed within the React ecosystem

• Experienced in supporting services in production environments.

• Experienced in build technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle and Jenkins.

• Experienced in deployments technologies. (Terraform, yaml are preferred)

Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Spring Boot development experience

• Proficient in producing high quality technical documentation.

• Proficient in producing high quality technical documentation.

• Proven troubleshooting and triaging skills to resolve production and customer issues.

• Experience developing distributed and concurrent systems; secure, fault tolerant, highly available, recoverable, consistent, scalable, and predictable and the tradeoffs therein

• Strong focus on performance, scalability, and security of services.

• Experienced in collaborating with diverse teams in a fast-paced, Scrum-based environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  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.

Primary Location: USA.CO.Boulder

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $153,600 USD - $230,400 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $145,900 USD - $259,200 USD

Additional Considerations:

09/05/2025

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