# Senior Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Auckland, New Zealand
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/New-Zealand-Auckland/Senior-Software-Development-Engineer--Payroll-Development_JR-0110887-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9f798574-436

## Description

We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the APAC Payroll Country Factory Team. You'll play a key role in building new native Workday payrolls across the APAC and ASEAN region, using AI-driven tools and processes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Align with implementation teams on customer projects to understand their technical environment, data, and country-specific requirements

- Collaborate on design, build, and deployment of production-grade software and integrations inside live customer and partner environments

- Guide integration of payroll systems with customer data sources, APIs, and identity/access systems

- Help troubleshoot and resolve implementation and production issues in real time

- Turn field learnings and recurring implementation needs into feedback that improves the core product and the AI toolset

- Act as a trusted technical partner for implementation teams' engineering and business stakeholders

- Work closely with product, engineering, and implementation partners across the region

- Help train and enable the deployment toolset on new capabilities, workflows, and lessons learned from the field

- Train Customer Experience team members and Solution Consultants on payroll functionality, deployment processes, and troubleshooting

**Requirements:**

- 7+ 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

- 3-5+ Years experience on Workday Payroll

- Comfortable writing production code in one or more languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Java)

- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern deployment practices

- Strong communication skills, comfortable partnering directly with customer stakeholders

- Able to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments

- Workday certifications required: Payroll

## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Workday Payroll
- Cloud Platforms
- API Integration
- Problem-Solving

### Nice to have
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Go
- Java
- CI/CD
- Containers
- Infrastructure as Code

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