Software Engineer

Company: Workiva, Inc.
Location: Ames
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

At Workiva, we want a diverse mix of talented engineers who are product builders. If you don't want to settle for "just doing the ticket", and if you want to be empowered to change the product to solve customer problems, you'll love it here. The technologies you know before-hand, or the technologies you leverage while solving problems, matter less than making software that real people enjoy using.
We're an agile team committed to maintaining a positive, safe, supportive, and results driven team culture. We routinely work on improving performance, user efficiency, and user experience in the application. Workiva uses a tight feedback loop with customers to re-prioritize work accordingly in an Agile development process. We're committed to solving real customer problems and use this feedback loop to ensure we're delighting them with our solutions.The team routinely works full-stack. The frontend is a web application leveraging Dart, HTML5, and CSS. The backend services are in Python, Java, Go and Kotlin and deployed in a Cloud environment using Kubernetes and Amazon AWS. The technology is a detail - we are confident that engineers can and will learn.
Workiva wants every team and individual to have autonomy and ownership over their team's deployment, production monitoring, and architecture. We facilitate this by helping individuals grow over time in expertise and with opportunities to lead. Since engineers collaborate with the rest of Workiva's teams to build a cohesive product, leadership and communication skills lead to growth and opportunity here.Job Summary
Contributes to product features, products or systems under the guidance, mentorship and direction of leaders and senior level team members.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to team projects and deliver individual level technical solutions
• Perform Code Reviews within your team's products or components
• Test software and write automated tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
• Debug components within your service or application context
• Analyze data to assess and understand solutions developed by your team
• Estimate your own work with guidance
• Write and document code with clearly defined requirements
• Communicate individual work to your team and diverse technical audiences
• Assist in triaging and resolving production issues
• May participate in product discovery activities with customers and stakeholders
• May participate in the hiring process
  What You'll Need
  Skills
  • Demonstrated proficiency in programming to include a solid foundation in computer science, with competencies in one or more of: data structures, algorithms, object-oriented software design, and working with cloud-based distributed systems.
  • Experience working in modern programming languages such as Dart, JavaScript, Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, or C#
  • Some experience debugging systems or applications
  • Experience using one or more commercial databases
  • Familiarity with one or more of the following areas: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, relational databases, REST and other modern web protocols, and/or Mobile computing
  • Familiarity building one or more of unit, integration, functional user acceptance, or contract tests
  • Experience working in an agile development environment preferred
  • Experience developing for service oriented architecture is a plus
  • Experience with Docker or other container systems is a plus
  • Experience with active or passive monitoring is a plus
    Education
    • BS in CS/SE/EE/CE/related field or equivalent experienceTravel Requirements
      • Up to 10% travel
        Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
        • May require after-hours support to resolve critical customer issuesHow You'll Be Rewarded:
          • Salary range in the US:$88,000.00 - $146,000.00 Annually
            • A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
            • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
            • 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits packageThe 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 WorkOur 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.#LI-HS1

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