- We are looking for an exceptional Senior 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
- Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous Go and Ruby applications, Ruby monolith application, as well as small self-contained Go microservices
- We also consider strong Ruby only candidates, as well as Golang-only candidates who are open to learn some ruby
- Improve execution engine of custom third‐party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features)
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Go
- 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
- We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen

Benefits
- Versátil Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
- Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions,



and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
- Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there's always time for a little fun on the calendars.
- Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.

Qualifications

Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills

Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5+ years)

Good understanding of network protocols and stacks

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

Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no‐SQL

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

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 Go and Rust

Background in network programming

Background in Go and/or Rust

Multiplatform Kotlin experience

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

Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus

Familiarity with WASM platform and toolchain

Background in application, data security

Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc.)

Experience of working with third‐party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc.)

Deep knowledge of physical DB design

Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies

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

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Ruby / GOlang) (Madrid)
🏢 Workato
📍 Madrid