About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h1><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Workato</strong></span></h1> <p>Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. To learn more, visit <span><a href="http://www.workato.com" target="_blank">www.workato.com</a></span></p> <h1><strong>Why join us?</strong></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a </span><strong>flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We are driven by </span><strong>innovation </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">and looking for</span><strong> team players </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">who want to actively build our company. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, we also believe in </span><strong>balancing productivity with self-care</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment </span><a href="http://www.workato.com/careers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">along with a multitude of benefits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, feel free to check out why:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/47-enterprise-startups-to-bet-your-career-on-in-2020-2019-12"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Business Insider</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#a57477b5f941"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forbes’ Cloud 100</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deloitte Tech Fast 500</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America</span></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://qz.com/work/2053446/the-best-companies-for-working-from-home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quartz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers</span></p> </li> </ul></div><h1><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h1> <p>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. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this role, y</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ou will also be responsible to:</span></p> <ul> <li> <p>Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications, Ruby monolith application, as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices.</p> </li> <li> <p>We also consider strong Ruby only candidates, as well as Golang-only candidates who is open to learn some ruby.</p> </li> <li> <p>Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).</p> </li> <li> <p>Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and GOlang.</p> </li> <li> <p>Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.</p> </li> <li> <p>Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.</p> </li> <li> <p>Provide code reviews to your teammates.</p> </li> <li> <p>Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.</p> </li> <li> <p>Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.</p> </li> <li> <p>Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.</p> </li> <li> <p>We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.</p> </li> </ul> <h1><strong>Requirements</strong></h1> <h3><strong>Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5+ years).</p> </li> <li> <p>Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.</p> </li> <li> <p>Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.</p> </li> <li> <p>Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.</p> </li> <li> <p>Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.</p> </li> <li> <p>Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with trend to migrate to G