Intermediate Backend Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Take backend features and improvements from problem clarification through shipping and production follow-up • Partner with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security within a product area • Design, implement, test, and ship backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages • Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant production code • Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, bounded services, data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior • Add and improve automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end test coverage • Review code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk • Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures • Identify technical debt and propose practical improvements • Participate in on-call or operational support as required by the team • Use AI productively in daily engineering work and validate its output

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications • Strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals • Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or another modern backend language • Ability to learn and adapt across backend languages • Ability to own features from clarification through delivery and follow-up • Ability to work independently while seeking input at the right time • Sound judgment regarding security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk • Understanding of modular backend boundaries and coupling consequences • Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment • Practical experience with AI coding tools, including reviewing and correcting generated code • Helpful experience with Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, cloud deployment, Rust, PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, event-driven workflows, observability, and modular or independently operated services

🏖️ 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-first, asynchronous organization