Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Workato's growing Engine team as a Senior Software Engineer! You'll build, extend, and maintain complex applications using GOlang and Ruby, focusing on recipe execution and improving the engine's performance, scalability, and security. Responsibilities include integrating data storage solutions, contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle, and providing code reviews. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications, a deep understanding of web application architecture, and multilingual programming experience. Workato offers a flexible, trust-oriented culture and a multitude of benefits.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in GOlang and/or Rust
• Background in network programming
• Background in application, data security
• 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)

Benefits

• Flexible, trust-oriented culture
• Vibrant and dynamic work environment
• A multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives