Intermediate Backend Engineer -Remote
Project Detail
What You’ll Do
- 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 to maintain a high bar for quality
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- 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
- Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
What You’ll Bring
- Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
- Strong experience with relational databases (postgres preferred).
- 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
- Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, provide clear and consistent status updates, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills