Intermediate Backend Engineer, GitLab

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Professional experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable RDBMS
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

Desirable

• Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application
• The Product Planning backend team works on the backend part of GitLab for the Portfolio Management, Design Management, and Certify product categories
• Among other things, this means working on GitLab's functionality around Epics, Roadmaps, Requirements, Quality Management, and Service Desk
• Our mission is to build planning tools that users love and allow collaboration between all levels of the organization
• The Product Planning team collaborates closely with the rest of the Plan stage, and the wider community, to build and improve features that are in high demand by customers
• Features such as Epics are widely used internally in the everyday organization of GitLab
• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
• Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues

• Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process