Senior Backend Engineer, Ruby – AI Catalog

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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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

• Design and build integrations that bring GitLab agents into tools such as Slack and connect external solutions such as Claude Code or Codex with GitLab • Take end-to-end ownership of complex features • Help shape architectural patterns for how GitLab exposes its AI functionality • Develop, ship, and maintain secure, well-tested, and performant external agent integrations across the GitLab monolith backend • Collaborate with Product Management, user experience, frontend, backend, and AI specialists to refine requirements and deliver high-quality improvements iteratively • Design, implement, and review GraphQL and REST APIs and related backend logic, with clear contracts for frontend clients • Improve and extend automated testing, including RSpec and other frameworks • Share standards, patterns, and lessons with other engineers to support responsible AI integration and evidence-based engineering • Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency • Assess the competitive landscape and help GitLab build strong AI integrations as agentic technology evolves

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails, including background jobs, APIs, and data models • Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase • Proficiency in designing or extending REST or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility • Practical experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features or integrations • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling • Experience identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks at the application and, where relevant, infrastructure layers • Openness to learning, collaborating in an asynchronous, distributed team, and applying transferable skills from related technologies or domains • Familiarity with Python backends or Vue frontends is a plus

🏖️ 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