Senior Software Engineer (Ruby / GOlang)

Workato

Barcelona, Spain · Madrid, SpainSenior Software Engineer$65k–$180kPosted Jul 13, 2026

&lt;div class=&quot;content-intro&quot;&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Workato&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.workato.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.workato.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why join us?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;. We are driven by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;innovation &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;and looking for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; team players &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;who want to actively build our company.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;But, we also believe in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;balancing productivity with self-care&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.workato.com/careers&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;along with a multitude of benefits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Also, feel free to check out why:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.businessinsider.com/47-enterprise-startups-to-bet-your-career-on-in-2020-2019-12&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Business Insider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#a57477b5f941&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Forbes’ Cloud 100&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Deloitte Tech Fast 500&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://qz.com/work/2053446/the-best-companies-for-working-from-home/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Quartz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;In this role, y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;ou will also be responsible to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications, Ruby monolith application, as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;We also consider strong Ruby only candidates, as well as Golang-only candidates who is open to learn some ruby.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and GOlang.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Provide code reviews to your teammates.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requirements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5+ years).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Optional&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Background in GO-lang and/or Rust.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Background in network programming.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Background in application, data security.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Deep knowledge of physical DB design.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Familiarity with WASM platform and toolchain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Kotlint-multiplatform&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(REQ ID: 2587)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;