Senior Backend Software Engineer

Posted Sep 12

Are you an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer seeking an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact and shape the future of technology? Join our dynamic team in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team at Workiva. We're on a mission to innovate and revolutionize the world of backend solutions, and we're looking for passionate individuals like you to be part of this journey.

Position Overview

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on our GRC team, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting and optimizing our Graph database. While prior knowledge of Graph databases is not required, your expertise in backend development using languages like Kotlin will be instrumental. While we primarily work with Kotlin, we are open to candidates who bring a strong foundation in software development and a willingness to embrace new technologies and challenges.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Designing, developing, and implementing high-quality software solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
  • Collaborating with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to understand and refine project requirements and ensure alignment with product vision and strategy. 
  • Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code that follows industry best practices and coding standards.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address performance and feature requests from various business units within GRC, including frontend services requiring APIs.
  • Supporting the development of public APIs to meet customer needs directly from the database.
  • Engaging in performance optimization and ensuring the database operates at peak efficiency.
  • Contributing to a variety of backend tasks and projects.
  • Communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, using clear and concise language.

What We Value

At Workiva, we value technical prowess, adaptability, and a proactive, self-motivated approach. While language proficiency is important, we believe that the ability to learn and adapt quickly is paramount. You'll have the opportunity to work with a diverse set of programming languages and technologies, and your ability to leverage your skills effectively will be highly regarded.

Why Join Our Team

  • Autonomy: You'll have the freedom to make important technical decisions and influence the direction of our projects.
  • Mentorship: Mentorship is a core part of our culture, and you'll have the chance to both learn from and teach others.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: You'll engage in meaningful conversations with teams across the organization.
  • Impact: Your work will directly impact our projects, and you'll see the results of your efforts firsthand.

What You’ll Need

  • 4+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 2 years with a Master's Degree.
  • Strong foundation in computer science, including expertise in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software design.
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language.
  • Experience debugging complex systems or applications.
  • Preferred experience in mentoring or coaching junior engineers.
  • Experience in agile development and continuous improvement is a plus.
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture is advantageous.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.

How You’ll Be Rewarded:

  • Salary range in the US: 

$102,000.00 - $173,000.00

  • A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Where You’ll Work

Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.

  • Customer Success:  Always delight our customers.
  • Trust: Rely on each other. 
  • Integrity: Do the right thing, every time. 
  • Collaboration: Share resources and work together. 
  • Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways. 
  • Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong. 
  • Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.

We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.

At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:

  • Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
  • Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
  • Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
  • Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.

Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/

Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

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