engineering
Posted 17 hours agoSoftware Engineer - Agentic AI & API Platform
at Workday
Dublin, IrelandRemote
Responsibilities
- Implement robust API behaviors including routing, validation, authentication/authorization, transformation, and error handling.
- Build and improve frameworks and tooling used by Product Engineering teams to define, publish, and maintain APIs (REST, SOAP, Graph, etc.).
- Write clean, well‑documented, and testable code; contribute unit, integration, and contract tests.
- Own small to medium services or API areas end‑to‑end — from design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and support.
- Collaborate with partners in other Workday code service and agent development teams. About You Basic
- routing, validation, authentication, throttling/rate limiting, transformation, and security policies.
Requirements
- 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.
- Our teams design and deliver features on top of Workday's core platforms and services, and increasingly depend on powerful, well-designed APIs to support agentic experiences and AI-driven scenarios.
- We are essentially building the "neural pathways" for Workday's next-generation applications — designing and scaling APIs that are optimized not only for human developers, but for AI agents to understand and act on autonomously.
- You will work with technologies such as TypeScript/Python and Workday frameworks to develop scalable, resilient distributed systems and great internal developer experiences.
- This role is crucial because agentic AI changes how APIs must be built.
- For an AI agent to successfully process an invoice, update an employee record, or orchestrate a complex workflow within Workday, the underlying APIs must be highly deterministic, self-describing, and resilient.
- Apply API contract and governance practices using OpenAPI/Swagger and internal standards.
- experience with TypeScript or Python in production environments 2+ years of
- experience with web service/API technologies (such as REST, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema, WSDL, GraphQL, etc) with an emphasis on contract-first design (OpenAI / Swagger) 2+ years of
- experience working with distributed systems architecture, handling high-throughput workloads, concurrency management, or advanced caching strategies Other
- Qualifications Demonstrated proficiency with modern AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate high‑quality software delivery.
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts: concurrency/multithreading, horizontal scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance.
- Understanding of typical API gateway
- Experience with API specifications and lifecycle (OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning, documentation).
- Good understanding of testing methodologies (unit, integration, contract, performance) and tools such as JUnit, ScalaTest, Postman, Mockito, and coverage tools.
- Experience with source control and modern dev tooling (Git/GitHub, Gradle, CI, debugging, profiling).
- Exposure to cloud‑based development (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Familiarity with MCP or similar integration models is a plus.
- Curiosity about agentic AI and interest in building APIs that power AI‑driven workflows.
- experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need.
Experience
- Qualifications 5+ years of
Benefits
- 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.
- Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only) Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position.
- Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant
- 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 awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here .
- Primary Location Base Pay Range: €72,000 EUR - €108,000 EUR Ireland Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote.
Additional details
- 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.
- 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 The Product Engineering organization builds the product experiences that Workday customers use every day.
- We partner closely with internal Workday teams to design APIs and patterns that are consistent, reliable, and easy to consume.
- We also act as a center of excellence for API governance, setting the standards that help the entire organization build with confidence.
- About the Role As a Software Development Engineer in Product Engineering, you will help build and maintain the APIs and backend services that sit on the critical path for Workday products and agentic experiences.