Senior Frontend Engineer, Switchboard

A brief overview:

GitLab is building an open source, single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle—from project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

At GitLab, we live and breathe open source principles. This means our entire handbook is online, and with a few clicks you can find the details of future releases and an overview of the product vision you’d contribute to when working here.

As a frontend engineer for the GitLab Dedicated Group, you will be working with the team to build Switchboard, a new customer portal being developed alongside the GitLab Dedicated single-tenant SaaS offering. Switchboard will be used both by Dedicated customers as well as internal GitLab teams (SREs). The work you’ll be overseeing will be impactful and highly visible to millions of our users across the globe. 

Why should you apply for this team?

Switchboard is a new portal being developed alongside the GitLab Dedicated single-tenant SaaS offering. Switchboard will be used both by Dedicated customers as well as internal GitLab teams who support and maintain Dedicated instances. As the sole front end engineer on the team this person will implement front end functionality, follow best practices as per the GitLab guidelines and work closely with the UX Designer, PM, EM and backend engineers to build and improve the Switchboard application.

This is a greenfield project and a great opportunity for a Frontend Engineer to contribute to and build a new application. The engineer will be part of a strong technical team that is newly formed in a visible and growing group within GitLab. 

What you can expect in a Frontend Engineer role at GitLab:

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

• Work 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.

• Confidently ship small features and 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 our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features both in your group and features that benefit other groups.

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

• You’ll learn, collaborate and teach other Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.

• You’ll fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a GitLab issue with an attached severity and priority label.

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

You should apply if you meet the following requirements:

• Professional experience with VueJS

• Experience with writing automated tests (eg. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)

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

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

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment

• 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

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset

• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility

• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization

• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

• Ability to use GitLab

Nice to have:

• Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Haml, or GraphQL

• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor

• Product company experience

• Experience working with a remote team

• Enterprise software company experience

• Developer platform/tool industry experience

• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team

• Domain knowledge relevant to the product stage in which you are looking to join (eg. someone with CI/CD experience applying for the Verify & Release team)

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.