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Backend Engineer (Ruby), Create: Change Record

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5 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Remote, PolandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Develop secure, well-tested, performant backend features using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and related technologies.
  • Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic supporting source-code workflows.
  • Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints while protecting system reliability.
  • Improve production reliability through monitoring, Tier 2 on-call participation, incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, observability, and resiliency work.
  • Collaborate with product, design, security, Gitaly, Code Review, Source Code Experience, and other engineering teams.
  • Use AI agents for appropriately scoped development work and critically review their output.
  • Write maintainable code, participate in code reviews, and share knowledge through documentation and collaboration.

Requirements

  • Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or APIs with Ruby and GraphQL.
  • Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
  • Experience with full-stack development for user-facing workflows and their underlying systems.
  • Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review.
  • Clear written and spoken English communication skills for remote asynchronous collaboration.
  • Ability to manage priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance when needed.
  • Experience using AI coding agents while critically reviewing their output.
  • Production experience building agents or agent-based workflows is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Remote work from the United Kingdom or Poland.
  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.

Tech Stack

GitGraphQLRubyRuby on RailsSQL

Categories

GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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