Staff Software Engineer

Workato; Madrid, Barcelona; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology company based in Madrid is seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong experience in Ruby and GOlang to join their Engine team. The role involves building scalable applications, improving existing systems, and leading technical projects. Candidates should have at least 7 years of industry experience and a solid understanding of cloud deployments and distributed systems. This position supports remote work within diverse teams globally.

Servicios

Flexible work environment

Variety of benefits

Formación

• 7+ years of industry experience in building scalable distributed backend applications.
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms.
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain complex GOlang and Ruby applications.
• Improve execution engine of custom third-party code.
• Provide technical leadership and code reviews.

Conocimientos

Building scalable distributed backend applications

Distributed systems patterns and algorithms

Load balancers

Message brokers

Network protocols

DB technologies

Multilingual programming

Cloud deployments

Public cloud infrastructure

Debugging and problem solving

Educación

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject

Herramientas

Ruby

GOlang

Rust

Docker

Descripción del empleo

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.

Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.

But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!

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, you will also be responsible to:

Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices.

Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).

Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and GOlang.

Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.

Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.

Provide code reviews to your teammates.

Provide technical leadership. Work with other teams on shared projects.

Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.

Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.

Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.

We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years).

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: classic databases and modern no-SQL.

Knowledge of all common basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.

Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with a trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust. At least two languages are required.

At least basic understanding of cloud deployments (k8s, Terraform, ArgoCD)

Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).

Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience.

Optional

Background in GOlang, Rust, WASM.

Background in network programming.

• Background in Kotlin/Multiplatform.

Background in application, data security.

Deep knowledge of physical DB design.

Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.

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).

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

Ability to technically lead projects. Work with requirements, cost analysis.

Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.

(REQ ID: 2343)

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