Intermediate Backend Engineer, India

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Own and Ship Features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages.
• ● Build for Production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.
• ● Test and Review: Add and improve automated coverage - unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate - and review others' code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.
• ● Operate What You Build: Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt and propose practical improvements, and take part in on-call or operational support where your team's ownership model requires it.
• ● Leverage AI: Use AI productively in daily work, validate what it produces, and understand where its limitations matter.

Requirements

• ● Backend Fundamentals: Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.
• ● Adaptability: Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language. We value the ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a single language.
• ● Feature Ownership: The ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up, working independently while seeking input at the right time.
• ● Practical Judgment: Sound instincts about security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk, plus an understanding of modular backend boundaries and the consequences of coupling.
• ● Clear Communication: Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• ● AI Fluency: Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct what they generate.
• ● Helpful experience
• ● Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC.
• ● Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment.
• ● Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work.
• ● PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows.
• ● Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• ● Contributing to a modular monolith, bounded context, shared component, or independently operated service.
• ● How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
• ● Flexible Paid Time Off
• ● Team Member Resource Groups
• ● Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• ● Growth and Development Fund
• ● Parental Leave
• ● Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.