Senior Frontend Engineer

Frontend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes both the open-source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to solve common goals.

Responsibilities

Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
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.
Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features both in your group and features that benefit other groups.
Help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (e.g. component library) and help contribute to make it better
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.
Fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a GitLab issue with an attached severity and priority label.
Contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Frontend Engineers and the GitLab community.
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
Exert influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of your team. This could be technical and/or product focused.
Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
Help define and improve 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 broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers in your section to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.
Consistently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Improves the engineering projects at GitLab as a project maintainer. For more information regarding timelines and exceptions, see this page.

Requirements

Professional experience with VueJS or another modern JavaScript web framework (React, Angular, Ember, etc.)
Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment
A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
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
Self-motivated and self-managing, with great 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 thrive in a fully remote organization
Ability to use GitLab

Nice-to-haves

Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails and Haml
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
Experience contributing to open-source software
Domain knowledge relevant to the product stage in which you are looking to join (e.g. someone with CI/CD experience applying for the Verify & Release team)

Levels

Job Grade

The Senior Frontend Engineer is a grade 7.

Performance Indicators

Hiring Process

Candidates for a Frontend Engineering position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.

Selected candidates will be invited to complete a short written assessment.
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with our Global Recruiters
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 90 minute technical interview with either a Frontend Engineer or a Frontend Engineering Manager
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute behavioral interview with an Engineering Manager
Candidates will then be invited to schedule a 60 minute interview with a Director of Engineering
Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

About Gitlab

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:

Mission: Everyone can contribute
Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices

See our culture page for more!

Work remotely from anywhere in the world. Curious to see what that looks like? Check out our remote manifesto and guides.

Last modified May 4, 2023: Refactor Job Families, clean up Values Migration (610c577a)