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GitLab · 12 hours ago

Intermediate Backend Engineer, Foundations: Import and Integrate

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$98K/yr - $210K/yr

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Responsibilities

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 a code review within our code review guidelines and ensure that 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.

Qualification

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Ruby on RailsRedisSidekiqRest APIPostgres SQLGraphQLData MigrationGrafanaKibanaEnglish proficiencyPerformance optimizationAgile development

Required

Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Redis, and Sidekiq

Professional experience with Rest API, GraphQL, and Postgres SQL

Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is 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.

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 excellent 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.