Backend Engineer — Ruby & GraphQL for Code Workflows

GitLab; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible schedule

Equity compensation

Paid time off

Job summary

GitLab in Ottawa, Canada is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Source Code Experience team. You will develop secure, well-tested backend features using Ruby and GraphQL to improve source code workflows across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

You will work through complex requirements, design backend services and data models, and contribute to observability, testing, and on-call duties to ensure reliability and scalable performance within the Create stage.

Qualifications

• Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL.
• An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
• Experience contributing to user-facing workflows and maintaining their underlying systems.
• Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and reviewing their output, or an interest in building these skills in a complex monorepo.
• Writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes.
• Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Relational databases

English communication

Tools

Ruby

GraphQL

SQL

Git

Job description

GitLab in Ottawa, Canada is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Source Code Experience team. You will develop secure, well-tested backend features using Ruby and GraphQL to improve source code workflows across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

You will work through complex requirements, design backend services and data models, and contribute to observability, testing, and on-call duties to ensure reliability and scalable performance within the Create stage.