Professional Services Development Engineer

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About the Team

HiredScore is the newest addition to the Workday family!

As the leading provider of Talent Orchestration technology, HiredScore’s artificial intelligence, automation and deep integrations empower the largest and most innovative companies in the world to safely and transparently drive critical business outcomes in recruitment productivity, diversity hiring, internal mobility, and total talent management.

HiredScore’s proprietary technology provides compliant-by-design AI that seamlessly connects to data and systems to power the shift to proactive and fair HR decisions. HiredScore is live in 150 countries.

HiredScore is designed to help companies match, rediscover, and engage talent more effectively. Seamlessly integrated with Workday, it streamlines processes, reduces administrative tasks, and delivers timely insights that enhance decision-making and free up time for meaningful interactions with top talent

We are growing our team - currently seeking highly skilled and motivated professionals to join our outstanding engineering team at Workday!

About the Role

As a Professional Services Engineer on the Cross Strategy & Operations Team, you will play a meaningful role in designing and delivering solutions that scale across multiple client-facing pods. This includes building automation, shared services, and internal tooling that empower our implementation managers and engineers to succeed. You will work closely with pod teams to anticipate challenges, reduce manual work, and ensure consistency and reliability in delivery.

Your work will directly influence how we optimize client implementations, reduce human error, and create maintainable, future-ready systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain shared automation and tools that scale across teams.

Contribute to strategic initiatives (e.g., self-service platforms, automation frameworks, and adaptation systems).

Identify project risks, design gaps, and propose scalable solutions early in the development cycle.

Collaborate with pod teams to enable new features for customers while ensuring reusability and consistency.

Build robust, automated solutions with strong test coverage that align with professional services standards.

Show initiative by proactively improving processes, escalating risks, and championing best practices.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

3+ years of experience developing software solutions in Python.

Proven track record of owning, managing, and delivering technical projects end-to-end.

Passion for automation, scalability, and reducing human error through thoughtful design.

Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases, with an understanding of indexes and performance optimization.

Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).

Strong collaboration skills, with experience mentoring or buddying engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of software design principles (SOLID, error handling, test-driven development).

Familiarity with development lifecycle tools (JIRA, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines).

Ability to thrive in startup-like, fast-moving environments.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a process-focused mindset.

Excellent communication in English, with the ability to document and share learnings clearly.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Hybrid Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so we require employees to work three days a week in the office and two days at home. This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.

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