Principal Backend Engineer

For over 31,000 growing businesses and HR teams seeking a comprehensive, all-in-one HR suite, Workable emerges as the premier solution. We uniquely combine the world’s most widely adopted Applicant Tracking System (Workable Recruiting) with a full-spectrum employee management system (Workable HR). At Workable, we empower companies to focus on what truly matters: hiring the right people and fostering their growth.

While we take HR seriously, we maintain a lighthearted and collaborative culture. At Workable, you’ll find smart people who have fun, learn, innovate, and help others do the same. We respect everyone, we hire the best, and make sure every experience is special.

We’re growing fast, in both headcount and revenue, and we’re looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team!

We have a team of remarkably talented and friendly developers, a strong engineering culture, and a dogged emphasis on customer-centric design. We're working on all sorts of exciting areas of application development: web, mobile, infrastructure, performance, UI/UX design, integrations with dozens of web services, API development, modern front-end frameworks, scalability, video, natural language processing, data science, and usability engineering. Agile methodology and test-driven development are not things we read about in blogs, it's what we do every day.

As a Principal Backend engineer, you will:

• Maintain high levels of development practices including technical design, solution development, systems configuration, documentation, test, issue identification and resolution, writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code.
• Grow the technical expertise of your team.
• Work closely with the SRE team to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of the backend systems.
• Work closely with other technical leaders to advocate for major technical investments that will improve our development experience and architecture.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our platform.
• Partner with other managers and engineers across the organization to align strategies, roadmaps, priorities and dependencies to mitigate risks and issues.
• Present technical solutions, complex ideas, and architectures to a broad audience effectively, or contribute to our engineering blog.

• A minimum of six years of full-time industry experience developing and maintaining software systems in production (preferably using Ruby, Node, Python, or Java).
• Extensive experience with relational databases and advanced knowledge of Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).
• Proven experience with NoSQL storage solutions (MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, etc.).
• Proven track record in designing, building, and operating distributed systems with high availability, throughput, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Expertise in testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end testing).
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art information security practices.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ for messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Elastic search in a production environment.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Passionate about web technologies and keeping up-to-date with industry trends.