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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Workshop

Workshop

Software Engineering
Omaha, NE, USA · Omaha, NE, USA · Remote
Posted on Jul 19, 2025

*Remote opportunity based out of Nebraska, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Indiana, Illinois or Ohio with required quarterly travel to Omaha HQ*

Workshop is an internal marketing platform that helps internal comms teams create, send, and measure multi-channel campaigns. Workshop is a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska.

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 execution on key roadmap projects for 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.
  • A belief in iterative development and the importance of delivering continuous value to customers.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced environment
  • Deep knowledge and experience with Ruby on Rails — we use Ruby on Rails with some Node & Typescript to power our backend (and Vue on the frontend).
  • Experience with relational SQL databases, schema, and query optimization. We’re big fans of PostgreSQL.
  • You care about web performance/optimization and treat performance as a feature.
  • Interest or experience in securing web applications is a plus.

Compensation and benefits:

  • Market 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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