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The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer (Ruby/Vue.js), Growth at GitLab, you will help shape how users discover, understand, and adopt GitLab's capabilities. You will work at the intersection of product, engineering, and analytics to optimize the full customer journey, from first sign-up through activation, feature adoption, and reactivation. In this role, you will design and implement experiments, build onboarding and personalization experiences, and use data to identify and deliver improvements that meaningfully move key growth metrics. Your work will directly impact how millions of users experience GitLab, making it easier for them to succeed with our product and realize its full value. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Data Analysts in a remote, asynchronous, and values-driven environment, with a particular focus on backend development in Ruby on Rails and frontend work in Vue.js. This role gives you the opportunity to combine your fullstack engineering skills with analytical thinking and experimentation, while iterating quickly and shipping changes that are measured, validated, and scaled across the platform.

Some examples of our projects:

Designing and running A/B tests across key parts of the GitLab product to improve activation and retention
Building and iterating on onboarding flows, in-product prompts, and personalization features that help new users discover core value quickly

What you'll do

Design, implement, and iterate on A/B tests and experiments across GitLab's platform to improve key growth metrics.
Build and optimize user onboarding flows, in-product prompts, and personalization features that help users quickly realize value.
Implement backend features and services in Ruby on Rails, and contribute to frontend experiences using Vue.js.
Analyze experiment and product usage data in partnership with Data Analysts, translating insights into clear, actionable improvements.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to refine hypotheses, scope experiments, and ship high-impact features.
Help maintain and improve our experimentation framework and tooling so the Growth team can test and learn efficiently at scale.
Work across GitLab's codebase with other Engineering teams to integrate growth-focused capabilities into core product areas.
Contribute to our remote, asynchronous ways of working by documenting decisions, participating in code reviews, and sharing learnings from experiments.

What you'll bring

Professional experience developing with Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript, ideally with Vue.js, demonstrating proficiency in fullstack engineering.
Strong expertise in Git and source control systems, with a solid understanding of feature development and deployment workflows.
Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and analyzing A/B tests and experiments, including multivariate testing and experimentation frameworks.
Strong data analysis skills, with the ability to interpret experiment results and translate insights into actionable product and engineering improvements.
Experience implementing and optimizing user onboarding, activation, and personalization flows in a SaaS environment.
Experience working with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and a solid understanding of web performance optimization.
Comfortable working in a remote, asynchronous environment and collaborating across distributed teams with Product Management, UX, and Data.
Self-motivated and organized, with a growth mindset and openness to diverse backgrounds and transferable skills, along with a commitment to GitLab's values and inclusive culture.

About the team

We are GitLab's Growth team, and we focus on improving how people discover, onboard to, and deepen their use of GitLab. We own key initiatives that span the entire user journey, including experimentation, onboarding flows, personalization features, and reactivation campaigns. We operate fully remotely and collaborate asynchronously across multiple regions, leveraging GitLab's values of transparency and open communication. We face the challenge of running high-impact experiments at scale while continuously improving user engagement, activation, and retention. For more on how we work, see the Growth and Product sections of the GitLab handbook.

How GitLab will support you

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.

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