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 6000 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 to join our growing team. We expect great experience in building distributed, robust, highly available, scalable applications from you. In this role, **you will work on the Engine which is a core part of the back end system.
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
Be part of a community-oriented organization with a history of giving back
Best in class technology tools to empower you to do your best work
Support for professional development and continuous learning
Wellness programs, including fitness challenges and an occasional company day off to recover from Zoom fatigue
Company-sponsored team-bonding activities and team celebrations
Employee and Customer 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 GO
- 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.
- Strong experience developing, shipping and maintaining Ruby and Rails applications, GOlang applications, is a strong plus.
- 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 C/C++/Linux or other system and 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).
Other Requirements
- Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.