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 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)
