Senior Backend Developer (Engine team)
Full time
at Workato Inc
in
Online
Posted on May 7, 2024
Job details
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, y ou will be responsible to:- 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
Requirements
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills
- 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
Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics
- 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)
Optional Requirements
- 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)
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