Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Workato's growing Engine team as a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain the Workato Recipe runtime. The ideal candidate has strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications, excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, and knowledge of Ruby, GOlang, and Rust.

Requirements

• 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 and Rust
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience

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

Benefits

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