An overview of this role

We are seeking an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer to join our growing Plan:Knowledgeteam. The Plan:Knowledge team is focused on GitLab's suite of tools for knowledge management practices and collaboration. We work very closely with stable counterparts including backend team, product management, product design, security, UX research and technical writing.

As an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer on the Plan:Knowledge team, you'll play a key role in developing foundation and high impact tools that are used throughout the GitLab product, such as Markdown, Rich Text Editor, GLQL Views, and Gitlab Wiki. You'll work closely with experienced engineers who will support your growth while impacting how organizations collaborate and help shape knowledge management best practices.

Some key challenges you'll help solve include:

Implement tools that compete with other knowledge management system platforms
Improve the access and flow of information within GitLab.
Empower all users, technical and non-technical, to contribute.
Foster a collaborative environment for GitLab contributions.
Facilitate effective knowledge management practices that are easily accessible.

What You'll Do

Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way using Vue.js, RoR, RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the GitLab product
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
Build responsive and accessible components that deliver an excellent user experience across devices and user needs
Consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
Work closely with UX designers to implement intuitive and effective user interfaces
Learn, collaborate and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they've been in the industry
Participate actively in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to enhance code quality
Help improve our test coverage and system reliability through thoughtful testing practices
Contribute to troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as they arise
Support technical documentation and internal knowledge sharing initiatives

What You'll Bring

Professional experience with TypeScript, Vue, Vuex and VueApollo
Professional experience with building fullstack web apps using RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, Redis, HAML, and related backend technologies
Experience with writing automated tests with Jest and Rspec
Experience with Elasticsearch for implementing advanced search functionality and data indexing
A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS and core JavaScript concepts
A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
Solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts
Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment and familiarity with code review processes
Understanding of responsive design principles and accessibility standards
Experience with performance optimization problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these issues
Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
Comfort working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a remote environment
Positive and solution-oriented mindset
Ownership mentality. Take responsibility for your work and follow through–whether that’s shipping a feature, fixing a bug, or improving a test.

Nice-to-haves (but not required)

Golang and/or Rust experience
Experience working with markdown and/or rich text editors
Computer science education or equivalent experience
Open source contributions

Intermediate Fullstack Engineer (Ruby on Rails & Vue.js), Plan: Knowledge

EMEA

Remote

Mid-level

GitLab