Senior Software Development Engineer

Location: IND.Chennai

Remote Type: Flex

Time Type: Full Time

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Workday Adaptive Planning, with a 7000+ customer base, is the only enterprise planning platform that gives every department, not just finance, the power to create multiple plans, the way it wants—and to roll it all up into one plan. The result? Connected models that are always in sync. This makes the complex planning process fast, smart and accurate.

The Evaluator team is the heart of the Planning application. We are constantly innovating ways to evaluate these complex n-dimensional models at speed and scale to match the growing complexity of financial planning

About the Role

We are looking for a fast and eager learner to join our engineering team and continue revolutionizing the heart of our application. The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with some experience working on enterprise web applications.

About You

Basic Qualification

•  8+ years experience in software development engineering, architecting, building, and scaling robust and efficient software systems.

• 6+ years experience in Java programming languages and related tools such as Java Profiler, Java Flight Recorder, JDK Mission Control, Thread and Heap Dump analyzer

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. 

Other Qualification

• Strong ability in Algorithmic Thinking and iterative problem solving skills, to design and optimize solutions for complex compute and memory intensive workloads.

• Strong skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with operations and Scalability study of large scale distributed systems.

• Experience with micro services architecture or Distributed Programming, Memory, concurrency of software solutions

• Solid experience with REST API Development 

• Strong understanding of Code Testing methodologies, such as Unit, Integration, and Performance Testing, and experience with Selenium and TestRail.

• Experience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana.

• Experience in Cloud Deployment and cloud technologies

• Proven ability to lead Team Collaboration within a software development team and mentor junior engineers.

• Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor

• Familiarity with agentic design patterns and when to use agents vs. code

• Familiarity with the tradeoffs and architecture of modern distributed systems

• Knowledge of software development best practices (DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability)

• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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