Software Engineer

About Maersk

As an international business on a high-tech journey, we don’t just transport millions of tons of cargo. We’re leading a digital revolution in global trade, creating opportunities for millions of customers around the world through new technology, data science, and artificial intelligence.

Growing your skills with Maersk means growing global trade and reinventing our industry, creating a digital foundation that moves the world. But it also means creating life-enhancing prosperity for people and communities through exciting initiatives.

We are in the midst of a large-scale digital transformation journey, and HR technology is a key enabler of this shift. As a Software Engineer , you will be part of our global people technology team, playing a pivotal role in building scalable, future-ready solutions that help support Maersk’s people strategy.

Role Summary

Maersk offers a unique opportunity to join a global People Technology team focused on optimising and evolving HR technology solutions. As a Software Engineer, you will work across modules including Recruitment, Compensation, Benefits supporting both frontend and backend technologies such as the Maersk Career Site, Microsoft and Workday ecosystem. Beyond application support and enhancement, you will partner with the People Function as a trusted advisor, translating complex business requirements into scalable technology solutions. The role also drives AI and automation initiatives to streamline HR processes, improve employee experiences, enhance decision-making, and increase operational efficiency across the HR technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, enhance, and support Workday Recruitment, Compensation, and Benefits modules, including business process design, security, eligibility rules, integrations, validations, reporting, and system optimisation to meet evolving business requirements.
• Develop AI-driven automation solutions by building Generative AI applications, copilots, and autonomous agents that streamline HR operations, enhance employee experiences, and provide intelligent decision support.
• Build and enhance applications across frontend and backend technologies using various programming languages and development tools to support business needs.
• Responsible for the quality design and implementation (supportable, maintainable, scalable, performant, secure) of APIs delivering business value
• Ensure code quality and adherence to development standards, CI/CD practices, code management strategies, and Workday configuration best practices, maintaining scalable, secure, and supportable solutions.
• Contribute to team capability growth through peer reviews, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and constructive feedback.
• Advisory to Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues and opportunities for the technical improvement
• Participate in strategic projects implementing new features, enhancements and additional systems.
• Manage change requests by impact assessing, solution design, testing and delivering.
• Perform Day-to-day operational tasks on incident management, managing mass loads, supporting HR Operations.
• Work agile in Scrum teams.

Required Qualifications

• Experience with Workday, with expertise in one or more of the following modules: Core HCM, Recruitment, Compensation, or Benefits.
• Good understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI/ML concepts, with hands-on experience developing LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and model fine-tuning. Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or similar AI platforms is desirable.
• Experience in building and supporting applications on .NET stack
• Hands on experience on frontend frameworks: Vue
• Experience in developing scalable and robust RESTful APIs, with basic understanding of OAuth2.0 authentication protocols and OWASP security best practices
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, including micro services architecture, App Services, API Management/Gateways, cloud-native development, and system integrations.
• Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD pipelines (GitHub), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and containerized deployment using Docker
• Any database knowledge: NoSQL, MongoDB etc.
• Knowledge of Cache based system
• Experience with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices, including developing effective unit and integration test cases using appropriate testing frameworks
• Good understanding of UX & UI principles and should be able to apply them while building solutions.
• Practical experience working in sprint-based delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate HR functional needs into technical requirements

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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