Overview
Senior Software Engineer, GOlang (API gateway) — Barcelona, Spain; Madrid, Spain
About Workato
Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real-time, driving efficiency and agility.
Trusted by a community of 400,000 global customers, Workato empowers organizations of every size to unlock new value and lead in today’s fast-changing world. Learn how Workato helps businesses of all sizes achieve more at workato.com.
We foster a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company, while balancing productivity with self-care. We offer a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits.
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance gateways and routing components
- Build server-side infrastructure for logging and monitoring
- Work closely with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability requirements are addressed
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
- Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- 8+ years of industry experience
- Strong experience with GOlang language at backend (4+ years)
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills
- Good understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
- Experience with building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
- Experience in Ruby on Rails is a plus
- Contributions to open source projects is a big plus
- Understanding of possible bottlenecks in a code and a solution in general
- At least basic knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and configuration
Optional Requirements
- Experience with Docker and other isolation technologies
- Experience with Redis based caching
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
- Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc)
- Experience with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc)
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 work with colleagues)
- Open to new technologies and willing to experiment
- Full-cycle product feature delivery mindset (from design to production and maintenance)