Backend Engineer (AI-Driven, Remote, Ownership)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to own backend features from concept through production. You will collaborate with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to ensure secure, scalable services and high-quality code in a remote, asynchronous setting.

You will work with Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, shipping features, improving tests, and leveraging AI responsibly to enhance daily engineering tasks and overall product quality.

Qualifications

• Production backend applications with API, database, testing, and performance fundamentals.
• Experience with Ruby/Rails or Go; learnability valued over mastery.
• Ability to own a feature from clarification to delivery.
• Strong security, reliability, and maintainability instincts.
• Clear written communication in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• AI tooling experience in coding workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship backend features with minimal guidance.
• Build production-grade APIs, jobs, and data models.
• Improve automated coverage: unit/integration tests.
• Investigate failures and address technical debt.
• Participate in on-call or operational support.
• Leverage AI to support daily work, verify outputs.

Skills

Backend development

Ruby on Rails

Go language

API design

Security practices

Distributed systems

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Cloud deployment

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to own backend features from concept through production. You will collaborate with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to ensure secure, scalable services and high-quality code in a remote, asynchronous setting.

You will work with Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, shipping features, improving tests, and leveraging AI responsibly to enhance daily engineering tasks and overall product quality.