Software Engineer - Agentic AI & API Platform

Workday
Dublin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["TypeScript","Python","REST","SOAP","GraphQL","OpenAPI","Swagger","Distribution","Caching"]

Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs and services for Workday’s agentic AI platform, using TypeScript and Python to build scalable, high-throughput systems. You’ll own API surfaces end‑to‑end, implement routing, authentication/authorization, data transformation, and error handling, and contribute to API governance, tooling, and observability to support AI‑driven workflows across Workday products.

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Software Engineer - Agentic AI & API Platform

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Job Summary

Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs and services for Workday’s agentic AI platform, using TypeScript and Python to build scalable, high-throughput systems. You’ll own API surfaces end‑to‑end, implement routing, authentication/authorization, data transformation, and error handling, and contribute to API governance, tooling, and observability to support AI‑driven workflows across Workday products.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain product APIs and backend services.
  • •Implement robust API behaviors including routing, validation, authentication/authorization, transformation, and error handling.
  • •Contribute to high‑throughput, low‑latency components and integrations, focusing on resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance.
  • •Apply API contract and governance practices using OpenAPI/Swagger and internal standards.
  • •Build and improve frameworks and tooling used by Product Engineering teams to define, publish, and maintain APIs (REST, SOAP, Graph, etc.).

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in software engineering building scalable backend services or platforms.
  • •3+ years of experience with TypeScript or Python in production environments
  • •2+ years of experience with web service/API technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema, WSDL, GraphQL) 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
Experience:5+ yearsAISaaSEnterprise software
Skills:TypeScriptPythonRESTSOAPGraphQLOpenAPISwaggerDistributionCaching
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptPythonOpenAPISwaggerRESTSOAPGraphQLKubernetesAWS

Company Brief

Workday
Provides cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management, financial management, payroll, and analytics. Delivers unified HR and finance software suites to large organizations, enabling workforce planning, talent management, payroll, and financial reporting.
Industry: HR Tech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Pleasanton, United States
Founded: 2005
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