Software Development Engineer, Payroll Development

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As a Payroll Engineer in the APAC Payroll Country Factory team, you are a key component of the Global Payroll mission: the link between the engineers building new payroll capability and the professional services and solutions teams (both Workday and Partners) implementing it for customers in each country. Your work keeps those two sides aligned and engaged, so implementations land successfully and at high quality.

You'll also help shape the AI toolsets development and implementation teams rely on, feeding your field experience back in to make those tools faster and more accurate over time.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production-grade code
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience integrating software with external systems, APIs, and enterprise data sources
• 1-3+ years experience on Workday Payroll

Other Qualifications

• Comfortable writing production code in one or more languages (for example, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Java), with a track record of taking a project from problem to shipped solution
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern deployment practices such as CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code
• Strong communication skills, comfortable partnering directly with customer stakeholders, including people without a technical background
• Able to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Experience creating training content or enabling other teams, such as Customer Experience or Solution Consulting, on technical or payroll concepts
• Willing to travel or work on-site with customers as needed
• Workday certifications required: Payroll

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