Intermediate Full Stack Engineer, GitLab

• Professional experience with TypeScript, Vue, Vuex and VueApollo
• Professional experience with building fullstack web apps using RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, Redis, HAML, and related backend technologies
• Experience with writing automated tests with Jest and Rspec
• Experience with Elasticsearch for implementing advanced search functionality and data indexing
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS and core JavaScript concepts
• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
• Solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts
• Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment and familiarity with code review processes
• Understanding of responsive design principles and accessibility standards
• Experience with performance optimization problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these issues
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Comfort working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a remote environment
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Ownership mentality. Take responsibility for your work and follow through–whether that’s shipping a feature, fixing a bug, or improving a test

Desirable

• We are seeking an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer to join our growing Plan:Knowledge team
• The Plan:Knowledge team is focused on GitLab's suite of tools for knowledge management practices and collaboration
• We work very closely with stable counterparts including backend team, product management, product design, security, UX research and technical writing
• As an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer on the Plan:Knowledge team, you'll play a key role in developing foundation and high impact tools that are used throughout the GitLab product, such as Markdown, Rich Text Editor, GLQL Views, and Gitlab Wiki
• You'll work closely with experienced engineers who will support your growth while impacting how organizations collaborate and help shape knowledge management best practices
• Some key challenges you'll help solve include:
• Implement tools that compete with other knowledge management system platforms
• Improve the access and flow of information within GitLab
• Empower all users, technical and non-technical, to contribute
• Foster a collaborative environment for GitLab contributions
• Facilitate effective knowledge management practices that are easily accessible
• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way using Vue.js, RoR, RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the GitLab product
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Build responsive and accessible components that deliver an excellent user experience across devices and user needs
• Consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Work closely with UX designers to implement intuitive and effective user interfaces
• Learn, collaborate and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they've been in the industry
• Participate actively in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to enhance code quality
• Help improve our test coverage and system reliability through thoughtful testing practices
• Contribute to troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as they arise
• Support technical documentation and internal knowledge sharing initiatives
• You’ll be joining a team of 5 engineers. Plan:Knowledge team owns Markdown, Rich Text Editor, GLQL Views, Gitlab Wiki, GitLab Pages, and everything related to text editing in GitLab