Staff Software Engineer (Core team)
Remote - Greece
Remote - Portugal
Remote - Spain
Remote - Poland
Remote - Bulgaria
Remote - Serbia
Full Time
Senior
Published on August 29, 2025
Here at Workato, we are a team moved by innovation — a passion to create the best possible way and the drive to continue to make it better. We also believe in the power of our team, knowing that we only succeed if we all succeed together. Our team uses seven operating principles to help us make better decisions, work as a team, and have fun.
We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Developer with expertise in Ruby and/or GOlang to join our growing Engine team. The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to the Workato Recipe runtime, including everything related to recipe execution: DSL, pulling events, processing webhooks, and executing jobs. There are various aspects to it: performance, scaling, storage, durability, atomicity, concurrency guarantees, data protection, and encryption.
The candidate should be prepared and enthusiastic about learning additional languages such as Ruby, Golang, Lua, and SQL. We place a strong emphasis on multi-language proficiency in our candidates.
- Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications.
- Design, document, and implement system-wide solutions with a focus on quality, reliability, and scalability.
- Provide technical leadership and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to a wide audience.
- Design and deliver well-formed and supportable APIs for REST endpoints/Go packages/Ruby gems.
- Integrate data storage solutions such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka, S3, ClickHouse.
- Provide code reviews to your teammates.
- Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.
- Eager to learn platform-wide components, understanding service communication, domain logic, and guarantees.
- Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and time zones
Requirements
- 7+ years of strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications.
- 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, including classic databases and modern no-SQL solutions.
- Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used.
- Multilingual programming experience, primarily in Ruby or Golang.
- Experience working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject, with 7+ years of industry experience.
- Background in network programming, building load-balancing, fair queues, throttlers. (Optional)
- Background in data security, PCI/FedRAMP-ready applications. (Optional)
- Experience working with Linux namespaces, Docker, or other isolation technologies. (Optional)
Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.