Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring an Intermediate-Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby) for its Plan: Spec-Driven Development team, building agentic workflows that turn an intent into work items, plans and mergeable code. The four-person team is all-remote across Canada and Europe; the salary listed is for EU residents.
What you will do
- Lead backend features from product discussions through design, rollout and post-launch learning
- Build the flows, APIs and data models behind agent-generated work items, plans, specifications and code
- Develop evaluation and benchmarking systems measuring workflow quality, token cost and success rate
- Build production systems in Rails and Python with PostgreSQL, GraphQL and LLM APIs
- Work with product, design, design partners and users to set scope
- Mentor engineers and coordinate multi-person projects asynchronously
What they ask for
- Strong Ruby on Rails experience in a large production codebase, plus production Python
- Experience driving multi-month projects with several engineers
- Product mindset: owning features end to end and learning from adoption
- Full-stack background with backend focus; able to read modern frontend code
- Strong API design and SQL fundamentals
- Experience with AI-assisted development
- Able to work independently across functions and regions
What they offer
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- All-remote, async-first work
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
