We are looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be responsible for building API interfaces (for customers, UI team etc). You will be responsible for building a high performance queuing/storage engine. You will collaborate with UI, connectivity and DevOps teams to come up with elegant solutions to complex problems. You will work in a polyglot environment where you can learn new languages and technologies whilst working with an enthusiastic team.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

• Write well designed, testable, efficient code

• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience

• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems

• Systems-level programming experience, especially in C, Go, Rust

• Expertise in L2, L3, and/or L4 networking protocols

• Good understanding of Linux networking and security

• Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc

• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis

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

• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet

• Contributions to open source projects is a plus

• Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems

• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems

• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process

• Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions

Responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.

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.

Optional

• Background in GOlang, Rust, WASM.

• Background in network programming.

• Background in Kotlin/Multiplatform. 

• 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: 2343)

Why us? 

Insurify is one of the America’s fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000’s fastest-growing private companies in America in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 2022, and 2021, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We’re changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design.

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management. Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team’s success.

How you will make an impact:

• Lead cross-functional projects from ideation to execution with a high degree of independence and maximum impact
• Solve high velocity, high impact analytics problems
• Scale the business using data
• Work on a mix of analytics engineering, business analytics, and data science using SQL and Python
• Build scalable data infrastructure that solves real problems

Sample projects:

• Operate and improve a data product to serve evolving business needs
• Refactor data system to scale with increased volume and new requirements
• Build new data pipelines to support tracking of new business initiatives 
• Champion usage of new tools and systems to improve team processes
• Improve the prediction accuracy of our customer acquisition machine-learning bidding algorithms
• Perform customer segmentation analysis to discover where to improve Insurify products
• Improve alerting systems to help us triage data quality issues at scale

Key Skills + Background

• 3-4 years of experience, record of impact and success in a similar role (Analytics or Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analysis)
• Expertise in and real-world experience with SQL
• Exposure to data warehousing and ETL concepts 
• Strong quantitative and programming skills - Python (preferred) R, Rust, Go, Ruby, C++ also good
• Bachelors / Masters in Mathematics, Engineering, CS, Economics, or other technical major
• Quick learning ability and a drive suitable for the startup hustle.
• A positive team player with a solid work ethic who is ready to pivot between projects, learn from mistakes, always move forward, and help build the next big thing in insurance!

Benefits

• Employee stock options
• 25 days annual leave
• Enhanced private medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Yearly wellbeing budget or Multisport card
• Personal budget for learning and books
• Employee Assistance Program and other wellbeing perks
• Office kitchen and fun area with snacks and beverages
• Regular social events
• Friendly office culture
• Hybrid office