About the Role
Workato is seeking a Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) to join their team. This role involves working on Workbot, an innovative platform for building interactive chatbots for Slack & MS Teams, used by enterprise customers. The position combines complex backend development, cutting-edge application platforms, and conversational user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Build complex Ruby on Rails services within the Workato platform
- Continuously research Slack & MS Teams ecosystems, understand trends, track changes
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
- Evaluate and propose improvements to the existing system
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting these for architectural review
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- 5+ years of strong experience developing, shipping and maintaining Rails applications
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and social skills
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming and design
- Experience with Go - nice to have
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks (AngularJS, React, etc) - nice to have
- Knowledge of MS Teams or Slack platform & API is a plus
- Understanding of what a good user experience looks like
- Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and time zones
- Spoken English (Intermediate or higher)
Skills
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
- React
- MS Teams API
- Slack API
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- We also believe in balancing productivity with self-care.
- Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”
- Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers
