Senior Backend Developer

Summary

Join Workato as a Senior Backend Developer, Ruby to build and extend complex heterogeneous Ruby applications, improve execution engine of custom third-party code, write well-designed code in Ruby, and contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Strong experience developing, shipping and maintaining Ruby and Rails applications (7+ years)
• Vast knowledge of Ruby, experience with intensive backend applications not only MVC
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills
• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must
• Good 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
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones
• Spoken English (at the level enough to pass technical interview and later work with colleagues)

Responsibilities

• Build/extend/troubleshoot/fix complex heterogeneous Ruby (Rails but not only) applications, as well as small self-contained microservices
• Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features)
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby (and some GOlang)
• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/Redis/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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of developing DSLs in Ruby
• Background in C/C++/Linux or other system programming
• GOlang
• 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)