Senior Software Development Engineer

In This Role, You Will

• Collaborate closely with principal engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate high level requirements into well-scoped, executable engineering work.
• Uphold API governance and engineering best practices within your team, including versioning, backward compatibility, and security standards for public-facing surfaces.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing, and help raise the technical bar on the team.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to build-vs-integrate decisions for platform components, with grounding in real-world tradeoffs of scale and maintainability.
• Write clear technical documentation for your features and contribute to internal engineering knowledge bases.
• About You Basic Qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of complex production systems. 8+ years of experience in JVM-based backend development (Java or Kotlin), with proficiency in the Spring Boot framework. 8+ years of proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, including experience with React. 5+ years developing RESTful APIs and manage complex third-party API integrations. 5+ years with hands-on experience deploying and operating production services in a cloud-native environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
• equivalent practical experience Other Qualifications AI & Agentic Systems: Familiarity with large language model integration strategies, such as OpenAI-compatible APIs, data streaming
• tool/function calling.
• You understand agentic architectures and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a producer or consumer.
• Agentic Coding Tools: Hands on experience with AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or Cline.
• Backend API Development: You are comfortable implementing real-time streaming (SSE/WebSockets) and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Frontend & React: Proficiency in modern frontend technologies including React, HTML, and CSS to deliver high-quality developer-facing interfaces.
• Code Quality & Testing: A strong commitment to testing methodologies using frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, JUnit, Cypress, & similar.
• You are capable of authoring stable, reliable tests for asynchronous logic and multi-turn AI interaction patterns.
• Observability & Operations: Background in application observability, including error tracking , metrics instrumentation, and product analytics.
• Familiarity with managing CI/CD workflows via GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other cloud deployment pipelines, and extension publishing environments like the VS Code Marketplace.
• The following are advantageous but not required: Familiarity with LangChain or comparable LLM orchestration frameworks Hands-on experience with cloud development technologies and platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Helm) is a plus Workday Pay Transparency Statement The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.
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• Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $160,100 USD - $285,100 USD Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote.
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• partners (depending on role).
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