Title: Fullstack Engineer, Create: IDE (TypeScript/Node)
Location: Remote, Global
JobDescription:
The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
About the team
The Create:IDE team focuses on building cloud-based solutions to empower teams to build and deliver software more efficiently. The team focuses on two main areas: Workspaces and WebIDE. These tools allow developers write, build, test, and debug code without needing to set up a local development environment taking away the hassles we’ve all been through with setting up and configuring complex environments.
The team is made up of experienced Engineers who care about contributing to the developer ecosystem;located across different time zones, async communication and manager of one is core to how we continue to deliver value to users. The Create:IDE team cares deeply about GitLab’s core values and has principles that align with those values. We aim to fight for the user, question everything, embrace the challenge that is Software Development, lean into discomfort as an expected part of this process, keep the fun in the team and measure what matters. The team cares deeply about contributing to the GitLab community and the developer ecosystem as a whole.
As an intermediate Fullstack Engineer, you’ll dive into our codebase, writing top-notch code and actively participating in collaborative code reviews. You’ll work closely with experienced team members, fine-tuning your skills and fostering a culture of continuous learning. Your role is key in shaping our product offerings and roadmap as an Engineer building tools that enable other Engineers to work efficiently and increase productivity without the hassles that maintaining a local development environment comes with. With the recent GA release of Workspaces, you’ll be able to contribute towards making this a loveable product. Some items on our roadmap include supporting multiple editors like JetBrains and JupyterLab, adding Extension marketplace to our VSCode fork and enabling Settings Sync, implementing Shared Workspaces which could improve pair programming and troubleshooting.
What you’ll do
- Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews
- Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software
- Mentor and support junior team members as you grow, sharing your knowledge and expertise to contribute to their growth
- Contribute to our development process by asking questions and providing feedback to make us better as a team
- Collaborate with more Senior Engineers on the architectural plans and technical designs ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability and measurability
- Participate in agile development practices, including planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team
What you’ll bring
- Professional experience writing TypeScript applications or libraries
- Experience with Node.js and ecosystem of tools (npm, yarn)
- Unit Testing (deep knowledge in any framework but ideally Jest) experience
- Web UI Framework experience (deep knowledge in any framework Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, etc.)
- Experience with CSS styling
- Any experience writing editor extensions is nice to have (and/or using a cloud-based development environment)
- An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus)
- Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers
Colorado/Washington pay range
$98,000—$189,000 USD
California/New York/New Jersey pay range
$98,000—$210,000 USD
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.