Intermediate Fullstack Engineer (Ruby/Vue.js), Plan: Knowledge

An overview of this role

We are seeking an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer to join our growing Plan:Knowledge team. 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 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

• 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)

• 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

About the team

We work closely with the larger GitLab Plan Stage while maintaining our specialized focus on knowledge management. Our technical stack spans Rails, to a lesser extent Go and Rust backends, Vue.js frontends.

You’ll be joining a team of 6 engineers. Plan:Knowledge team owns Markdown, Rich Text Editor, GLQL Views, Gitlab Wiki, GitLab Pages, and everything related to text editing in GitLab. Our focus is transforming knowledge management experience into a fully-featured collaborative solution that would be used across the entire GitLab product. 

As the Intermediate Fullstack Engineer, you will work on the highly requested features as well as maintaining the existing features. You’ll get to know our codebase, roadmap, and working methods. You will be empowered to take ownership and drive the implementation of the prioritized features or defects. You’ll help the team and community via code review, issue refinement, engaging with users and open-source contributors on public issues and merge requests, and advocating for process improvements.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• All remote, asynchronous work environment

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and development budget 

• Parental leave 

• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.