Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Project Management

Job Description

About the RoleWe are looking for an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our Plan:Project Management team, part of the broader Plan Stage. In this role, you’ll work on diverse challenges—from feature development to scalability and performance optimization. You’ll collaborate closely with frontend and backend engineers, UX designers, and product managers distributed across multiple time zones around the globe.

You’ll help shape the future of the GitLab Agile Planning offering and how thousands of users manage projects to enable their teams to plan and execute work effectively. What You’ll DoCollaborate closely with Product and Design counterparts to finalize the requirements and break down projects into smaller iterations. Collaborate with other engineers to plan and execute the work. Collaborate with engineers across Plan Stage on larger projects.

Create Proof of Concepts for more complex work. Ensure quality by writing extensive tests, and roll out changes.

Iterate and ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Craft code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Support other engineers and advocate for quality during code-reviews.

Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions as part of our Engineering Backlog RotationNurture our open-source community by selecting and preparing issues for contributors, helping to organize hackathons, and reviewing contributions. Suggest and execute process improvements in monthly retrospectives. What You’ll BringProfessional experience with Ruby on RailsExperience in PostgreSQL database design and optimizationExperience in REST API and GraphQL developmentExperience working with a platform or complex application (Large scale is a bonus).

Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems. Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholdersExperience working in a highly agile, iterative software development process. 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. Nice-to-haves (but not required)Knowledge of Elasticsearch and NoSQL database technologiesExperience with GitLab CI/CD workflowsComputer science education or equivalent experienceOpen source contributions

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