Growth Engineering, Senior Staff Software Developer

Workiva is a platform company that unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a secure, AI-powered foundation for complex organizations. The Senior Staff Software Developer will lead the architecture, technical strategy, development, and scaling of AI-powered applications and agent-driven experiences while partnering across teams to deliver innovative products. The role also focuses on platform enablement, automation, system reliability, and technical leadership in ambiguous, early-stage initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution, and new product initiatives
• Adapt your approach to match the needs of the work, whether the priority is speed, scale, or long-term maintainability
• Use AI-native development practices to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve quality and leverage
• Help establish thoughtful code review and pre-production quality practices that support fast, reliable delivery
• Lead technical direction for large, cross-team initiatives aligned to long-term platform strategy
• Design systems that balance flexibility, scalability, and maintainability
• Anticipate future constraints and evolve architecture before problems reach scale
• Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and architectural bottlenecks
• Drive early-stage exploration for ambiguous problems, including work where the answer becomes clear through prototyping and building
• Build infrastructure that embeds AI into engineering workflows
• Design tools and patterns that reduce manual effort through automation and intelligent assistance
• Create guardrails that support safe, reliable AI-assisted development
• Help define system behavior by capturing specifications from code, tests, logs, and the people closest to the work
• Raise the technical ceiling of the teams around you
• Drive alignment across teams and influence key technical decisions
• Reduce ambiguity and help teams make better decisions faster
• Create durable artifacts such as runbooks, decision logs, and tests that can be handed off and evolved by others
• Share context across product domains to help solve problems more effectively

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software systems
• Experience leading technical strategy and architecture across teams
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI development, including shipping real work with AI as a primary development collaborator
• Experience driving high-impact initiatives across multiple teams
• Experience improving engineering quality through TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, mutation testing, or similar approaches
• Strong systems thinking and judgment, including awareness of second-order effects
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least two delivery modes: platform modernization, iterative product evolution, and high-ambition greenfield development
• Ability to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers
• Depth in a domain that materially improves system design or developer experience
• Proven experience operating at Staff+ level across multiple teams or domains
• Strong background in distributed systems and platform architecture
• Experience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts
• Ability to deliver production-quality outcomes in a small, time-boxed team setting
• Strong written communication skills and a habit of creating useful, durable artifacts