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The gitlab devops platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficientlyWe are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 1,600+ team members and values that guide a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.
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 principlesThis 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.
We already have a large team of frontend engineers (70+) and are still rapidly growingWe more than doubled our frontend headcount in 2019 and are likely to double again in 2020.
As a frontend engineer at gitlab, you will be responsible for implementing and improving frontend features in the gitlab productEach engineer is mapped to a stage group to help improve the products maturity level and increase smau 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?
The plan stage is a stage within the dev section whose goal is to provide powerful planning tools to keep everyone involved in the development lifecycle synchronizedFrontend engineers on this team can expect to work on one of the two groups within the stage:
Project management: issue tracking, kanban boards, and time tracking
Product planning: epics, roadmaps, and requirements management
Frontend engineers on the team can expect to be an active stakeholder in building and contributing ideas towards our long term goals.
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
You’ll 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 environmentMaintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team membersCollaborate 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 (egComponent library) and help contribute to make it better
You’ll learn, collaborate and teach other frontend engineersEveryone 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 trackerThese 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.
Levels we are currently hiring for:
Intermediate frontend engineers
Senior frontend engineers
You should apply if you meet the following requirements:
Professional experience with vuejs or another modern javascript web framework (react, angular, ember, etc)
Experience with writing automated tests (egJest, karma, jasmine, mocha, ava, tape)
A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (egHow 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
Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
Positive and solution-oriented mindset
Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
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 and haml
Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
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
Experience contributing to open source software
Domain knowledge relevant to the product stage in which you are looking to join (egSomeone with ci/cd experience applying for the verify & release team)
Hiring process
Select candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with our global recruiters
Next, candidates will be invited to complete a short written assessment.
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 90 minute technical interview with either a frontend engineer or a frontend hiring manager
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 60 minute behavioral interview with a frontend hiring manager
Candidates will then be invited to schedule a 60 minute interview with a director of engineering
Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.
Compensation
To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbookThe compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .
For colorado residents: the base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $89,600.00 - $163,200.00 for colorado residents onlyGrade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market dataSee more information on our benefits and equity Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salaryDisclosure as required by the colorado equal pay for equal work act, c.r.s§ 8-5-101 et seq.
Country hiring guidelines: gitlab hires new team members in countries around the worldAll of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirementsOur talent acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
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