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Senior Scala Engineer

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Workday

Dublin - Ireland 🇮🇪

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Team

In the Orchestration & Integrations organisation we develop code at the very heart of Workday’s cloud based software platform. We are responsible for building highly scalable tools and services that empower the largest customers in the world to design and process enterprise integrations between Workday and their applications.

This team is a core part of the Workday stack, working with concurrent and distributed systems to provide core services for our internal and external customers. Distributed systems are hard, so we love the elegance that Scala and Akka bring.

About the Role

Candidates should have a strong understanding of algorithm development, networking components, and implementing secure protocols.

Interested? Apply by e-mail: simon.oregan@workday.com

Relevant Skills And Experience

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Minimum of 3+ years of functional programming in Scala.
  • Commercial experience with distributed, concurrent, high-performance systems.
  • Experience building REST/SOAP API services.
  • Experience with the Akka framework or actors is a bonus.
  • Knowledge of security best practices for application architecture, communication protocols, and AWS infrastructure.
  • Experience with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS / SNS / Kinesis.
  • Experience with Zookeeper / Docker / Kubernetes / GraphQL / Gradle is a plus.

About you

  • Love to solve problems with code (and prove it works via automated tests!)
  • Have a passion for developing distributed systems and delivering them at scale while planning for future growth.
  • Have a strong sense of ownership, having worked on and monitored a service in a production environment.
  • Are excited by shipping new features and know that delivering to production takes more than just coding.
  • Strive to understand the big picture. Given the choice, you would prefer to collaborate than to go it alone.
  • Continuously look to grow your skill set.
  • Love working in an environment where teams are given autonomy and empowered to succeed.

Benefits

  • Top tier compensation package.
  • Full health insurance.
  • Pension contributions.
  • 27 days annual leave + bank holidays.
  • Relocation assistance, including flights and 30 days accommodation in Dublin. Including for direct family.
  • Full work permit sponsorship.
  • Work from home 40% of the time.

At Workday we believe every potential recruit brings a unique experience to the table. We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and we are happy if the candidate is willing to learn and apply these skills needed for you to be successful in your career.

Apply by e-mail: simon.oregan@workday.com