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Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails), Plan: Planning Views
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Bangalore, India
Our take: The real work here is shaping and building the backend that powers GitLab's work items platform at massive scale, while listening to users and growing the engineers around you.
If you love shaping what to build as much as building it, this is backend work with a real product voice. You will make PostgreSQL behave under millions of work items, design clean GraphQL and REST contracts, and mentor engineers and open source contributors along the way. It is async, distributed, and driven by people who care what users are actually trying to do.
Needs
- backend feature building
- postgresql optimisation
- api and systems design
- product mindset
- mentoring engineers
- engaging with users
Rewards
- quality that holds
- visible user impact
- growing teammates
- scaling hard systems
Demands
- improving perf at scale
- being on call
- async distributed work
- cross-timezone collaboration
Grows
- working in a mature codebase
- learning ai features
- giving code feedback
- proofs of concept
Values
- user obsession
- learning with ai
- frequent iterations
- async autonomy
- rigour on contracts
Drains
- incident troubleshooting
- maintaining test suites
- safe rollout overhead
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