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Tier-1 employer, remote role, and a generalist senior backend title create high applicant competition.
Specialized Rails/Postgres and large-scale backend experience moderately reduces cross-industry transferability.
No explicit years but seniority, Rails, Postgres at scale, GraphQL, and leadership needs enforce moderate strictness.
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Collaborate with Product and engineering teams to design, build, and optimize backend features for the GitLab work items platform powering high-traffic planning views (lists, boards, roadmaps).
Improve backend performance and scalability, particularly PostgreSQL query optimization, denormalization, partitioning, and potential migrations to Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.
Mentor engineers, ensure quality with testing and feature flags, handle on-call production troubleshooting, and contribute to backend architecture decisions.
Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails backend development within a large and mature codebase.
Strong PostgreSQL expertise including query optimization, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning for performance at scale.
Experience designing and evolving scalable GraphQL and/or REST APIs with backward compatibility.
Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Engineer with a strong product mindset focused on user impact and experience who balances technical implementation with user needs and trade-offs.
Technical leader experienced in driving multi-engineer, multi-month projects and mentoring peers with feedback, code reviews, and supporting career growth.
Full stack background but currently focused on backend, with demonstrated skills improving performance and scalability of backend systems at scale.