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. 

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• 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.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

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

• Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms.

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

• Excellent understanding of network protocols and stacks.

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

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

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

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

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

• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.

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

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Background in GOlang, Rust, WASM, Kotlin-multiplatform.

• 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 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).

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

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

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

(REQ ID: 2582)