Backend Engineer, Ruby

🕒 August 13

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 20%

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL • Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting system reliability • Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic supporting source code workflows • Collaborate across functions and teams asynchronously and synchronously • Use AI agents for well-scoped work and critically review their output • Write maintainable code according to GitLab standards and contribute to code reviews • Monitor production health metrics and participate in Tier 2 on-call • Troubleshoot incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency • Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and collaboration

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces • Experience using Ruby and GraphQL • Understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices • Experience contributing to user-facing workflows and maintaining their underlying systems • Experience writing backend unit and integration tests • Familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes • Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and reviewing their output, or interest in building these skills in a complex monorepo • Clear written and spoken English communication skills • Ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance when needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave • Remote work arrangement