Workday's acquisition of Flowise aims to simplify the creation of AI solutions by providing a low-code platform for building chatbots and autonomous agents, enabling users to create sophisticated AI workflows without extensive coding knowledge. This partnership will empower partners to build faster, expand their offerings, and deliver quicker value to shared customers, specifically for HR and finance AI agents.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with our core stack: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, React, Express, Turbo (Flowise is a monorepo)
- 4+ years of experience with PostgreSQL or other RDBMS, along with a strong understanding of performance optimization and scaling strategies.
- Experienced in API design, architecting backend systems, database modelling, OOP, ERD diagrams.
- Experienced in building and operating SaaS products in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Experienced in the technologies and tradeoffs involved in building modern distributed systems
- Advanced knowledge of modern software development practices (devops, automated testing, observability, etc)
Responsibilities
- Lead Backend Development: You'll take the lead in designing and developing the backend systems for the Flowise application. This involves writing clean, efficient, and well-tested code for the server, APIs, and data models to ensure high-quality software development.
- Improve and Execute: Make Flowise the best visual low-code tool for building AI agents by helping to improve our backend services across our open-source, cloud, and enterprise versions. Latency, stability, developer experience, test coverage.
- Collaborate and Implement: Partner with leaders and teams across various departments including frontend, product to identify backend software requirements and implement effective solutions.
- Drive Code Quality: Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor other engineers to foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement within the backend team.
- Navigate Ambiguity: Proactively identify and resolve issues within the backend systems to ensure optimal functionality. You'll be comfortable navigating ambiguity to turn hard backend problems into clear solutions through reasoning and research.
Other
- This role is for a dedicated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to ship customer value early and often.
- Successful track record of operating as part of multi-functional teams in fast-paced, agile environments
- Highly effective communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity to turn hard problems into clear and compelling solutions through reasoning and research.
