Staff Software Engineer (Ruby or GOlang)

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Developer (Ruby/Go) 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
• We also consider strong Ruby-only candidates, as well as Golang-only candidates who are open to learning new languages
• Be a key contributor to the architecture and design of distributed applications with strict requirements for performance and resilience
• Build/extend/troubleshoot/fix complex heterogeneous Golang/Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained Golang microservices
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Golang
• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/Redis/Kafka/ClickHouse etc
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Provide code reviews to your teammates
• Provide technical leadership. Work with other teams on shared projects
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization

Benefits

• Flexible Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
• Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
• Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions, and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
• Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there’s always time for a little fun on the calendars.
• Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.

Qualifications

Excellent understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL

Excellent understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc

Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms

Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience

Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years)

Excellent understanding of network protocols and stacks

Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with a trend to migrate to Go and Rust. At least two languages are required

Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills

At least basic understanding of cloud deployments (k8s, Terraform, ArgoCD)

Knowledge of all common basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must

Deep knowledge of physical DB design

Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus

Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc)

Background in Go, Rust, WASM, Kotlin-multiplatform

Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc)

Background in application, data security

Background in network programming

Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies

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

Ability to technically lead projects. Work with requirements, cost analysis