People Operations Fullstack Engineer at GitLab Inc.

Job Description

• People Operations Fullstack Engineer will work on automating various workflows of People Operation teams, including working on GitLab backend (Ruby on Rails), and frontend (Vue.js).
• Due to the nature of the work and projects involved in People Operations, this role will require automating manual or semi-automated workflows across various other platforms used by the People Operations teams.
• This position reports to the Manager, People Operations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with all team members in PeopleOps, as well as Engineering and Product to work on automation between various systems and creating smaller improvements inside of GitLab.
• Advocate for improvements to people operations projects, issue tracker and project in GitLab-com.
• Improve and automate our Off-boarding process, to ensure a more rapid and voluntary workflow.
• Improving our Data Analytics dashboards.
• Automation of various mundane tasks.
• API building for external systems (payroll, benefits, etc).
• Involvement in Compensation Calculator Design/updates.
• Architect and implement PeopleOps support tool to streamline questions from multiple sources.
• Auditing People Ops processes/iterating for efficiency.
• Automate updates to the about.gitlab.com/jobs page
• Update the general jobs page.
• Improvement and automation of contract creation
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.

Requirements

• Sincere interest in working on People Operations or Operations related Engineering tasks.
• Professional experience with Ruby and Rails.
• Professional experience with JavaScript and associated web technologies (CSS, semantic HTML).
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with modern Frontend frameworks (eg. React, Vue.js, Angular).
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup.
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor.
• Experience working with a remote team.
• Enterprise software company experience.
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools and how we use it in non-engineering teams.