Fullstack Engineer, Technical Writing

Fullstack engineers work across the front- and backend of the the GitLab documentation site to improve the user experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the documentation site in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with the Technical Writing Director and other stakeholders (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to site quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Requirements

• Ability to use GitLab
• Professional experience with Ruby and Rails
• Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and static site generators (like Hugo)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to use GitLab
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks (eg. React, Vue.js, Angular)
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Product company experience
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Levels

Senior UX Fullstack Engineer

The Senior Fullstack Engineer reports to the Director, Technical Writing.

Senior UX Fullstack Engineer Job Grade

The Senior UX Fullstack Engineer is a grade 7.

Senior UX Fullstack Engineer Responsibilities

• Extends the responsibilities and requirements of the Fullstack Engineer
• Reports into a team member of the User Experience team.
• Performs enhancements to the look-and-feel of the documentation website.
• Helps support the Technical Writing team by answering team member questions and triaging/responding to issues.
• Coordinates with various stakeholders regarding site content or structure changes
• Maintain and improve the CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and review environments
• Improve content-authoring experience and tooling
• Perform and/or coordinate/delegate resolution of any other docs site issues related to infrastructure, code, architecture, projects, security, CI/CD, builds, deployments, upgrades, performance, scalability, metrics, monitoring, etc

Performance Indicators

The Senior UX Fullstack Engineer is included in the Technical Writing MR rate.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

 

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About GitLab

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