Intermediate Backend Engineer

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Description

GitLab is a leading open core software company that provides a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform used by over 100,000 organizations worldwide. Our mission is to empower everyone to contribute and co-create the software driving our world. As a Backend Engineer in Developer Experience, you will focus on measuring and optimizing the developer feedback loop to improve workflow efficiency across GitLab projects. You’ll be part of a team that enhances the developer experience, streamlines product development, and promotes a secure, compliant, and accessible environment for all contributors.

Responsibilities

• Build automated measurements and dashboards to enhance insights into the Engineering team’s productivity
• Improve contributor and developer productivity by implementing measurement-driven optimizations for development tools, workflows, and processes, with ongoing monitoring and iteration
• Use GitLab’s own product features to streamline developer workflows and provide feedback to the product team
• Contribute to Engineering throughput activities and track KPIs
• Develop automated processes to enhance label classification hygiene to support engineering workflows
• Improve efficiency for the broader GitLab Community contributions
• Enhance and introduce new GitLab product features to boost engineer productivity

Qualifications

• Experience in Ruby development
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks for both front-end and back-end testing
• Proven experience in designing and developing tools and solutions used across teams
• Strong development skills in object-oriented programming languages and patterns
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with front-end charting/visualization libraries
• Familiarity with test automation tools (eg Selenium, Capybara, Watir)
• Experience using Continuous Integration systems (eg GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis)

Application instructions:

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