Senior Frontend Engineer - AI-Driven UI & Scale (Remote)

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity Compensation

Stock Purchase Plan

Growth Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to tackle high-scope frontend challenges, ship mid-sized features, and mentor teammates. You will influence technical direction and collaborate across product, design, backend, and frontend to deliver high-quality software for a global, remote-first platform.

You’ll help shape frontend architecture, improve performance and accessibility, and apply AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully.

Qualifications

• Experience applying frontend architecture, browser behavior, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability practices in a complex product or platform environment.
• Experience designing or evolving modular frontend boundaries, independently buildable surfaces, component systems, or migration-safe architectures.
• Experience making pragmatic trade-offs with product and design partners and turning complex requirements into clear user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship moderately sized frontend features and improvements with minimal guidance, making pragmatic architectural choices.
• Turn ambiguous customer and product needs into clear technical plans and intuitive, accessible experiences.
• Advocate for product quality, security, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.
• Establish and improve practices for frontend architecture, styling, component design, testing, observability, maintainable code, and thoughtful use of AI and agentic tools in production engineering work.
• Mentor Associate and Intermediate Engineers, share knowledge, remove blockers, and improve team delivery practices.
• Diagnose and prevent frontend performance and reliability issues at scale using observability and production signals, and participate in incident response or on-call responsibilities under your team’s ownership model.
• Design or review independently buildable frontend surfaces and explicit contracts for data, events, authorization, feature flags, error handling, testing, and performance expectations.
• Collaborate with product, design, backend, quality, security, and other teams to deliver cohesive customer outcomes.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Browser performance

Accessibility

Component systems

Mentoring

Written communication

Remote collaboration

AI-assisted development

Vue/React/Angular familiarity

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

GraphQL

REST APIs

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to tackle high-scope frontend challenges, ship mid-sized features, and mentor teammates. You will influence technical direction and collaborate across product, design, backend, and frontend to deliver high-quality software for a global, remote-first platform.

You’ll help shape frontend architecture, improve performance and accessibility, and apply AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully.