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An overview of this role
As a frontend engineer on the Plan: Product Planning team you’ll work primarily on the work-items views. Read more in our epics: lists, agile boards, table view, saved views. We’re currently a team of 5 backend, 3 frontend, and 1 fullstack engineer, a product manager, an engineering manager, and a designer.
We work in smaller sub-teams of 2-5 engineers focusing on a single project for 1-3 months. Every month one engineer is assigned to the quality rotation working on performance, monitoring, security vulnerabilities, and maintenance issues. We meet once a week, project teams can have their own calls, but we mostly work asynchronously.
We mostly work with Vue.js and Apollo Client moving GitLab into the SPA-like experience.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design counterparts to finalize the requirements and break down projects into smaller iterations. Then work with other engineers to plan and execute the work.
- Work with engineers across Plan Stage. We have multiple Senior, Staff and Principal frontend engineers, including Vue core members.
- Iterate and ship value to customers quickly. Create Proof of Concepts for more complex work. Ensure quality by writing extensive tests, and rolling out changes behind feature flags.
- Craft code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
- Support other frontend engineers and advocate for quality during code-reviews.
- Participate in the Quality Rotation
- Nurture our open-source community by selecting and preparing issues for contributors, helping to organize hackathons, and reviewing contributions.
- Suggest and execute process improvements in monthly retrospectives.
What you’ll bring
- Professional experience with Vue.js (2.x), Apollo Client, and VueApollo
- Professional experience with building fullstack webapps with GraphQL
- Experience with writing automated tests with Jest
- 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
- Some experience with backend technologies, especially Ruby on Rails is a plus.
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.
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