Senior Backend Developer (Core team)

About Workato

Workato is the operating system for today’s fast-moving business. As a high growth company with over 11 000 customers, Workato is revolutionizing the integration and automation market with investments from the top 3 SaaS companies - Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow. Recognized as a leader by both Gartner and Forrester, it is the only AI-based platform that enables both business and IT to integrate their apps and automate workflows across their enterprise with robust security and governance. Some of the world’s top brands including Slack, Grab, Box, Visa, Broadcom run on Workato.

We are looking for an exceptional **Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) to join our growing Engine team.
The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to Workato Recipe runtime. Everything related to recipe execution: DSL, pulling events, processing webhooks, executing jobs. There are various aspects to it: performance, scaling, storage, durability, atomicity, concurrency guarantees, data protection, and encryption.

Why join us?

• Supportive, collaborative, international team environment that supports remote employees (currently all of us!)
• Long-term prospects for a professional career in a high growth company
• Flexible Work culture
• Best in class technology tools to empower you to do your best work
• Support for professional development and continuous learning
  • Company-sponsored team-bonding activities and team celebrations
• Employee referral bonuses

Responsibilities

• Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices.
• Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and GOlang.
• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Provide code reviews to your teammates.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen. # Requirements Technical Skills
• Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5+ years).
• Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
• Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.
• Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.
• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.
• Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with trend to migrate to GOlang.
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 5+ years of industry experience.

Optional

• Background in network programming.
• Deep knowledge of physical DB design.
• Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.
• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).
• Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.
• Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).