Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Developer Platform

Workday; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking an experienced Engineer for the UI and Tooling Server team to design, build, and operate core backend services of the Developer Platform. You will work across a JVM stack (Java/Kotlin), Spring Boot on AWS and Kubernetes, delivering features end-to-end from API contracts to UI integrations.

You will own services, drive production health, and contribute to AI-enabled tooling, with collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering with a strong focus on backend microservice architectures and distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin, with production Spring Boot experience; Go is a plus.
• 3+ years operating production services including observability (metrics, logging, tracing) and on-call.
• Hands-on experience with AI-augmented development and directing/validating agent-generated code.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver backend microservices and developer-facing UI features end to end, from design to production rollout and health.
• Build and evolve public and internal APIs with versioning and security standards.
• Operate cloud-native services with metrics, logging, and SLO-based alerting; participate in on-call.
• Integrate AI and agentic capabilities into the platform, including LLM integrations and MCP tooling.
• Use AI-augmented development tools daily and establish team practices for reviewing agent-generated code.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to break down requirements and articulate trade-offs.
• Raise the technical bar through code review, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Backend microservices

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud concepts

On-call / incident response

AI-augmented development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

AWS

GCP/Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Workday is seeking an experienced Engineer for the UI and Tooling Server team to design, build, and operate core backend services of the Developer Platform. You will work across a JVM stack (Java/Kotlin), Spring Boot on AWS and Kubernetes, delivering features end-to-end from API contracts to UI integrations.

You will own services, drive production health, and contribute to AI-enabled tooling, with collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams.