Senior Software Engineer (GO, AI chatbot)

We seek an exceptional Senior Go Engineer to join the Workato Genie team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing mission-critical features and services for the Workato platform, including AI chatbot dispatching and balancing synchronous and asynchronous AI execution.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Build high-performance gateways and routing components
• Build server-side infrastructure for logging and monitoring
• Work closely with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability requirements are addressed
• Collaborate closely with the AI team to design and implement innovative features for a new AI assistant, ensuring cutting-edge performance and user experience.
• Contribute at all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Evaluate and propose improvements to the existing system
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Strong experience with Go language at backend (4+ years)
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and social skills
• Good understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
• Experience with building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Experience in Ruby on Rails is a plus
• Contributions to open-source projects are a big plus
• Understanding of possible bottlenecks in a code and a solution in general
• At least basic knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and configuration

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Docker and other isolation technologies
• Experience with Redis-based caching
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc)
• Experience with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing, etc)

• Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones

• Spoken English (at a level enough to pass technical interviews and work with colleagues)

• Open to new technologies and willing to experiment

• Full-cycle product feature delivery mindset (from design to production and maintenance).