Backend Engineer (RoR), Plan

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Professional experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable RDBMS
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate about complex technical problems
• Experience with performance and optimization problems
• Comfort working in an agile software development process
• Demonstrated ability to integrate with an organization long-term
• Effective communication skills and collaboration
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills
• Share company values and work accordingly
• Thriving in a fully remote organization
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with the code review process

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Understanding of ActiveRecord, GraphQL, and Sidekiq
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• Product company experience
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience

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
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Craft code that meets internal standards for style and maintainability
• Conduct Code Review within guidelines and ensure community contributions receive responses
• Recognize impediments to efficiency as a team and propose solutions
• Represent company values in public communication around projects
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting

Perks and Benefits

• Remote and agile work environment
• Opportunity to contribute to a comprehensive DevSecOps Platform
• Chance to build features and tools that impact organizations worldwide
• Supportive and collaborative team culture