Golang Job: Software Development Engineer - Search Team

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Company

Workday

Location

Dublin - Ireland

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Your work days are brighter here.
At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.
About the Team
Our team is responsible for solving complex and interesting search problems across large datasets, providing search functionality across the Workday application stack. At massive scale, we contribute to the technology behind data normalization, search relevance, recommendation systems and machine learning with the goal of making enterprise in the cloud more inquisitive. The work is exciting and rewarding.
About the Role
Are you interested in Machine Learning and have a passion for search?
We are currently seeking innovative Software Engineers to join us in our Dublin office. You will be part of an engineering team with expertise building search and ML based predictive data into Workday applications.
Core Requirements:
  • Experience with Java or Scala will help you make a real difference in how Workday delivers search.
  • Experience with any of Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr or similar search technologies would be beneficial.
  • The team mainly develops in Scala, however we are interested in speaking to talented engineers with experience in other languages.
  • Experience working in distributed, backend systems as well as large codebases and of continuous integration concepts.
  • An understanding of SaaS applications and concepts would be beneficial, as would exposure to microservices and SOA.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Attention to detail and ability to work well within a team.
The ideal candidate would:
  • Have extensive experience of microservice architectures and have experience working with databases containing reasonably big (>1M rows) datasets.
  • Be comfortable working in codebases potentially containing >200,000 lines of code.
  • Have prior experience of information retrieval systems and may have been a committer to Lucene/Elasticsearch/Solr core
If you share our passion for technology and innovation, please apply!
About You
Basic Qualifications
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of distributed systems engineering experience utilizing one or more of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Golang

Other Qualifications
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field and relevant software development experience
  • Query processing experience
  • Linux expertise
  • Good grasp of SQL and distributed data processing

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