Senior Backend Software Engineer at Workshop

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

Workshop is looking for a driven backend software engineer to help develop and design our software solutions. We're a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha-based candidates are preferred but will consider remote within ± 2 hours CST for the right candidate.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will:

• Work closely with our product & design team to translate and execute product vision into scalable product.
• Be a stakeholder in engineering and product strategy -- this isn’t just another place to knock down story points and tickets -- you’ll have meaningful and direct ownership in your work.
• Have the autonomy to ship code to production regularly and frequently.
• Develop tested, scalable core product features that are seamlessly integrated with our API driven frontend.
• Own the technical direction on key roadmap projects for the team.
• Mentor and coach junior developers on the team.

To be successful at this position, you’ll need to:

• Have a passion for building and maintaining quality user experiences on the web at scale.
• Sweat the small things. We view product excellence as a north star -- We’re only successful when our users successfully use Workshop and care deeply about the end-to-end user experience.
• Maintain a strong understanding of modern software development methodologies and their best practices
• Have a deep knowledge and experience of object oriented programming in dynamically typed languages like Ruby or Python. Deep experience with Ruby on Rails is preferred -- we use Ruby on Rails with some Node & Typescript to power our backend (and Vue on the frontend).
• Have experience with relational SQL databases, schema, and query optimization. We’re big fans of PostgreSQL.
• Care about web performance/optimization and treat performance as a feature.

Bonus points if you:

• Have an interest or experience in securing web applications
• Have experience with SQL database, schema, and query design and optimization. We’re big fans of PostgreSQL

Compensation and benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation
• Healthcare
• Stock options
• 401k
• Unlimited vacation
• Flexible work environment

About Workshop

Workshop is a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska and we’re on a mission to create more happy Mondays for employees everywhere. We build software to help internal communications teams create, send, and measure multi-channel, employee-centric campaigns.