Senior Frontend Engineer, Create: Code Review - remote

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GitLab is looking for someone to fill their Senior Frontend Engineer position within the Code Review team. In this role you’ll be working on a mature and complex code base with plenty of opportunities to work on highly visible features while tackling challenging technical hurdles to deliver the best Code Review experience to our users.

About the Code Review team

The Code Review team is focused in providing the best experience for anyone involved in Code Reviews through Merge Requests. The frontend, in particular, is heavily invested in improving performance, ship new and useful features while maintain the code base through managing tech debt and rewriting complex parts of the Vue application that powers Merge Requests with performance and developer experience in mind. This includes several exploratory proof-of-concepts experiments.

The team is also responsible for developing the VS Code Extension to complement the experience we provide on the web. You’ll have an opportunity to contribute on the codebases of the VS Code extension as well as the GitLab project.

Some of the work the team has been doing which may give you more insight into this position:

• Comment on multiple lines in a merge request diff
• Add virtual scrolling to diffs
• Add “Previous”and “Next”buttons for commit-by-commit navigation
• Improve browser Total Blocking Time (TBT) performance of Project Merge Request Discussions page into S3 tier
• Add the ability to show pipelines within vscode

Responsibilities:

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Designers, Frontend Engineers and other stakeholders 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 high 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.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team, and propose and implement solutions.
• Consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

You should apply if you bring:

• Professional experience building Frontend web applications using VueJS or another modern frontend framework.
• 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.
• 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 provide clear status updates.
• Aspiration toward building our culture of 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 an organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

You’ll stand out if you bring:

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL or other tools in our tech stack.
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor.
• You have experience with writing automation tests using Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape, etc.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

Our hiring process for this Frontend Engineer position typically follows four stages. The details of this process can be found on our job family page.

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