Frontend Engineer, Plan at GitLab Inc.

At GitLab, we live and breathe open source principles. This 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.

What you can expect in a Frontend Engineer role at GitLab:

• You'll help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features
• You’ll help identify areas of improvements in the code base and help contribute to make it better
• You’ll work alongside the UX team, the Backend Engineering team and Product Managers to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
• You’ll learn, collaborate and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone 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 tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a GitLab issue with an attached severity and priority label.
• You'll write high quality code to complete scheduled direction issues assigned by your frontend engineering manager.
• You’ll contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Frontend team and the GitLab community as a whole.

 

You Should Apply If

• You have prior experience building Frontend web applications
• You have a solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how does JavaScript handle asynchronous code)
• You have working knowledge of when and how to make your code scale effectively
• You are proactive in taking ownership of tasks and take them to completion
• You desire to learn and continually give and receive feedback effectively
• You have a solid understanding of CSS , semantic HTML and core JavaScript concepts .
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency (CREDIT) resonate with you.

Nice To Have

• You have experience contributing to open source software
• You have experience optimizing code and look for ways to resolve performance issues
• You have experience working with modern frontend frameworks (eg. React, Vue..etc)
• You have working knowledge of Ruby on Rails
• You have domain knowledge relevant to the product stage in which you are looking to join (eg. someone with CI/CD experience applying for the Verify & Release team)

Hiring Process

• Select candidates will be invited to complete a short technical assessment
• Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with our Global Recruiters.
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 60 minute technical and behavioral interview with a Frontend Hiring Manager
• Candidates will then be invited to schedule a 60 minute interview with the Director of Engineering
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer