Intermediate Backend Engineer, EMEA at Gitlab

Intermediate Backend Engineer, EMEA

Gitlab · Remote, United KingdomRemotemid

In short

▸Ingeniero backend intermedio que lleva features desde la idea hasta producción en Ruby/Rails o Go.
▸Trabajas en equipo en entorno remoto, con comunicación asincrónica y alto enfoque en calidad, seguridad y rendimiento.
▸Destacado: se espera usar IA como herramienta esencial en el trabajo diario, no como mero complemento.

Proficiency in English is required for written and verbal communication.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia con Ruby/Rails o Go en entornos de producción.
✓Capacidad para entregar features completas con bajo nivel de supervisión.
✓Conocimiento en diseño de APIs, trabajos en segundo plano y gestión de bases de datos.
✓Habilidades de comunicación clara y escrita en entornos remotos y asincrónicos.
✓Actitud proactiva para buscar ayuda cuando es necesario y aportar en revisiones de código.
✓Enfoque en seguridad, rendimiento y observabilidad del software.

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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. About the role As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping them and following up in production. You will work within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver predictably and contribute to the quality, security, performance, and maintainability of shared backend code and services. You will be trusted to work with minimal guidance, to know when to seek help, and to communicate clearly in a remote, asynchronous environment — with other tenured engineers alongside you to review your work, think through hard problems with you, and help you grow. Why you’ll love this role • Ownership: You'll take features from requirements through delivery and follow-up; your code will run on a platform used by millions of users. • Learning and Growth : You’ll work alongside your engineering team, who treat code review and design review as a learning loop rather than a gate — one of the fastest ways to grow your engineering judgment. • Innovative Culture: You’ll use AI as a genuine part of daily engineering work, developing the judgment to know when to trust it and when not to. • Autonomy: You’ll thrive in our remote-first, asynchronous organization, where clear written communication and self-direction are the pillars of success. • User-Centric Collaboration: You’ll partner closely with PMs and designers to shape requirements, so you understand why you’re building something, not just what. What you’ll do • Own and Ship Features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages. • Build for Production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior. • Test and Review: Add and improve automated coverage — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate — and review others’ code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk. • Operate What You Bu

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