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.

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