As a Staff Backend Engineer for Workiva Carbon, you’ll play a central role in guiding, mentoring, and leading engineers, while also helping shape the technological vision of our backend environment. You’ll lead efforts to elevate the backend developer experience, championing the implementation of cutting-edge capabilities. You’ll be instrumental in fortifying the scalability, adaptability, and expansiveness of our web applications.

Through close collaboration with our talented engineering and design cohorts, you will drive the delivery of top-tier solutions that exceed our customers' expectations.
 

What You’ll Do

Develop and enhance the backend services for the carbon application, consider how architectural changes impact downstream teams

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and a cohesive user experience

Optimize APIs performance and stability to deliver a smooth user experience

Collaborate with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to understand and refine project requirements and ensure alignment with product vision and strategy

Write clean, efficient and maintainable code that follows industry best practices and coding standards

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and consistency

Deliver and document team or group level technical solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations

Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and automated tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.) with Workiva solutions in mind to ensure software quality and reliability

Debug and troubleshoot complex issues across multiple service and application contexts using tools and techniques appropriate for the problem

Collaborate with support teams in triaging and resolving production issues to ensure customer satisfaction

Participate in product discovery activities with customers and stakeholders to gain insights, validate hypotheses, and identify opportunities for innovation

Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to identify problems, suggest solutions, and drive continuous improvement

Mentor and coach other engineers both technically and culturally, providing guidance and support to help them grow and achieve their full potential

Communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, using clear and concise language

What You’ll Need

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience in building backend services for web applications

Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field​; an advanced degree may be considered in lieu of professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in object-oriented software design and working with cloud-based distributed systems

Strong experience in building large scale TypeScript application architecture

Proven experience of building applications with Typescript

Expertise in debugging complex systems

Experience as a technical mentor, with the ability to coach and mentor junior engineers

Experience working in an agile development environment preferred, with a focus on continuous improvement and delivery

Experience developing for service-oriented architecture is a plus

Exposure to SaaS product-engineering development

Understanding of event-driven architecture

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and adaptability skills, with a commitment to staying up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in software engineering

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

10% travel for customer and internal meetings 

Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office

May require after-hours support to resolve critical customer issues 

Workiva is an Equal Opportunity 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, gender identity, race, religion, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.  

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.

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