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Senior Backend Engineer, Plan: Knowledge Engineering (Ruby)
GitLab
Engineering & Technology
IT & Telecoms
GHS
Confidential
New
1 week ago
Job Summary
As the new Senior Backend Engineer, you will work on the highly requested features as well as maintaining the existing features by investigating and fixing existing bugs You’ll get to know our codebase, roadmap, and working methods. You will then take ownership and be responsible for both architecture and hands-on implementation. You’ll also help the team and community via code review, issue refinement, engaging with users and open-source contributors on public issues and merge requests, and advocating for process improvements.
- Minimum Qualification: Degree
- Experience Level: Senior level
- Experience Length: 5 years
Job Description/Requirements
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate across teams: engage with other engineers, product manager, infrastructure teams, and users to refine feature specifications and drive them to general availability.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, performance, and team processes.
- Iterate in everything you do: identify the minimal viable changes and constantly ship value to users while keeping a larger product vision in mind
- Engage with community contributors and users on public issues: figure out the best solutions for specific issues, write detailed “how to implement” guides, and support contributors in the review process.
What You’ll Bring:
- Significant professional experience with Ruby On Rails. 70% of our code is in the Rails monolith, so you need to be comfortable with it and enjoy writing Ruby code.
- SQL and Database Proficiency: Proficiency in writing efficient SQL queries, preferably with PostgreSQL, to manage and manipulate data effectively.
- Some experience with Go or Rust (non-professional experience is fine)
- Professional experience building web applications and APIs (REST or GraphQL )
- Experience owning a feature from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
- Adopt to Asynchronous Work: Manage priorities effectively focusing on results. Communicate clearly and navigate team dynamics proactively in our remote setting.
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Contributions to GitLab are highly regarded, but not strictly necessary.
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