Workflow Development Engineer, Senior Associate Job Description

Design, build, and run workflow-driven applications and reusable components that enable scalable, configurable, and auditable business processes across enterprise platforms. You will work on modern workflow engines and full-stack applications to support long-running, user-interactive workflows, with strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and extensibility.

You will partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, Platform Engineering, and Client Implementation teams to deliver production-grade workflow solutions that support both core platforms and client-specific implementations.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build workflow-centric applications and shared components, including:

• End-to-end business workflows using Appian or other workflow engines, supporting long-running, stateful, and user-driven processes
• Workflow orchestration and integration with backend services, external systems, and event-driven architectures
• Reusable workflow patterns, sub-processes, and validation frameworks to improve consistency and delivery efficiency

Develop full-stack solutions where applicable, including:

• Backend services and APIs to support workflow execution, validation, and integrations
• Data models and persistence strategies optimized for workflow state, history, and auditability
• Frontend/UI components that deliver clear, intuitive user experiences for task processing, reviews, and approvals

Contribute to platform and system-level capabilities, including:

• API design and integration (REST / event-driven) to connect workflows with upstream and downstream systems
• Kafka-based event publishing and consumption for asynchronous workflow triggers and status propagation
• Configuration-driven designs to reduce hard-coding and improve flexibility across clients and regions

Ensure production readiness and operational excellence by:

• Designing workflows and services with performance, scalability, and resiliency in mind
• Implementing logging, monitoring, and error-handling strategies to support troubleshooting and SLA commitments
• Participating in code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high engineering standards
• Collaborating with architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and security requirements
• Supporting production issues and incident analysis related to workflow execution and integrations

Qualifications Required

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Appian development or equivalent experience with modern workflow engines
• Solid backend development experience using Java and/or other JVM-based languages
• Strong understanding of workflow concepts, including long-running processes, human-in-the-loop tasks, state management, and exception handling
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, with attention to versioning, backward compatibility, and performance
• Strong skills in data modeling, including relational databases and workflow-centric data structures
• Experience integrating with external systems and services in enterprise environments

Preferred / Plus

• Full-stack development experience (backend + UI), including workflow task UIs and business-facing screens
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures
• Experience in UI/UX design for enterprise workflow applications, with a focus on usability and clarity
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience working in financial services environments
• Exposure to cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, OCI, etc.)

What We Value

• Strong engineering judgment with a focus on maintainability, performance, and scalability
• Ability to balance platform-level design with client-specific delivery needs
• Clear communication and collaboration with product, architecture, and implementation teams
• A proactive mindset toward improving developer productivity and system quality

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