Intermediate Fullstack Engineer - Plan: Product Planning

An overview of this role

As a Fullstack Engineer, your work within the Plan: Product Planning team will focus on building and improving high priority and scalable features for some of our largest customers which connect the work that engineering teams perform to higher level strategy, across multiple teams and in longer time horizons (quarters or years). The core features include Epics, Roadmaps and OKRs. 

This includes working on a platform (i.e. Work Items) that Product Planning is building as a foundation of GitLab to serve our users for years to come. You’ll collaborate with some of the best engineers out there, including Vue Framework Core team members.

Some interesting links about the team and role:

• Plan Handbook

• Product Planning

What you’ll do  

• You’ll be contributing to a foundational GitLab platform (i.e. Work Items) that will power core features like Issues, Epics, Design Management, and OKRs for years to come.

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way

• You’ll work with peers within Product Planning group along with Engineering, Product, and Design Management counterparts to iterate on new features within the your group and across Plan stage.

• 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.

• Consistently ship features iteratively and make improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

• You'll help improve the overall experience of the product by improving the quality of the Fullstack we ship, within Product Planning and across  Plan stage..

• You’ll help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (eg. GitLab UI component library) and make contributions to it.

• You’ll learn, collaborate, and get opportunities to mentor other Frontend/Backend Engineers across engineering division. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.

• You’ll work on deliverables as determined in the milestone plan (see how we plan milestones). These are typically features, bugs, technical debt cleanup, security fixes, and maintenance of owned feature areas.

• You’ll contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Fullstack Engineers and the GitLab community as a whole.

What you’ll bring 

• Professional experience with Vue, Vuex and VueApollo

• Professional experience with building fullstack webapps with GraphQL

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, Redis, HAML, and related backend technologies

• Experience with writing automated tests with Jest and Rspec

• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS and core JavaScript concepts

• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)

• 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, and clear status updates