Senior Fullstack Engineer - Growth

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, we are seeking an individual with a proven track record in the SaaS industry, ideally within a growth-related department, with hands-on experience in experimentation and A/B testing. Your familiarity with our tech stack, including Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and PostgreSQL, along with analytical skills, will be pivotal in driving the full lifecycle of Growth experiments. Additional experience in handling registration, signup, trial, and onboarding flows in typical SaaS applications would be a valuable asset. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you'll work on diverse areas of our application rather than being limited to one specific domain. Your contributions will span across improvements and experiments on all existing product features, and you'll actively participate in maintaining our experimentation framework (GLEX). Joining the Growth team, you'll play a key role in enhancing the initial adoption of the platform, increasing the rate at which new sign-ups find value, and facilitating teams in realizing the benefits of our paid features, guiding them towards becoming loyal paying customers.

What you’ll do  

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way

• Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations

• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance

• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.

• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

• Senior Fullstack Engineers improve the engineering projects at GitLab as a project maintainer. For more information regarding timelines and exceptions, see this page.

• Staff Fullstack Engineer only - Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

What you’ll bring 

• Professional experience with Ruby and Rails

• Professional experience with JavaScript and associated web technologies (CSS, semantic HTML)

• 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

• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.

• 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 use GitLab

• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks (eg. React, Vue.js, Angular)

• 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

• Computer science education or equivalent experience

• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• All remote, asynchronous work environment

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and development budget 

• Parental leave 

• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.