GitLab

Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Spec-Driven Development

Worldwide (Remote)

Senior

REMOTE

GitLab is hiring a Backend Engineer to join the Plan: Spec-Driven Development team, a small distributed group building agentic workflows that turn stated intent into refined work items, implementation plans, and mergeable code. You will own early-stage backend work across flows, APIs, data models, and evaluation systems using Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and GitLab's AI platform. This is a high-visibility, all-remote role with broad ownership, opportunities to lead major features end to end, mentor engineers, and collaborate directly with product, design, and users toward a p...

Ruby on Rails

Python

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

REST API design

SQL

Backend system design

API design

Asynchronous collaboration

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