Frontend Engineer, Digital Experience
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An overview of this role
As a Frontend Engineer, Digital Experience, you’ll work closely with product marketing, content marketing, and other members of the Marketing team to create user friendly pages and features to educate prospective customers on how GitLab enables them to deliver software faster and more securely.
The Digital Experience team primarily develops the about.gitlab.com marketing site, but our work spans across the entire portfolio of projects at GitLab.
You'll be working alongside a team of experienced Senior Engineers who are committed to mentoring and supporting your growth. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills while maintaining high-impact, production-grade code. We leverage GitLab's own platform for our entire development workflow, from planning to deployment, with a streamlined deployment process.
Some examples of our projects:
What You’ll Do
- Work with the Marketing Strategy and Platforms team and other stakeholders (Content, DemandGen, Brand, etc.) to iterate on new features and improvements to GitLab’s digital marketing platform.
- Consistently ship small features and improvements to our Slippers design system
- Help improve the overall experience of our Marketing website through improving the quality of the Frontend features.
- Help identify areas of improvements in the code base that help contribute to make it better.
- Help plan sprints and complete prioritized issues from the issue tracker.
- Partner with team members on the simplest solutions to problems.
- Develop features and enhancements to GitLab’s marketing site in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- 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.
What You’ll Bring
- 3-5 years experience specializing in frontend development for websites and web applications.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, HAML and JavaScript (Vue.js, React, Ember etc.).
- Experience with responsive design and best practices.
- Knowledge of current web accessibility standards and requirements.
- Knowledge of information architecture, interaction design, and user-centered design.
- Strong knowledge in core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page).
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Experience using design software to collaborate with designers and create pixel perfect web pages (eg. Figma, Sketch).
- Prefer SaaS Product company experience.
- Prefer experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team.
- Prefer understanding of marketing concepts such as conversion, analytics, A/B testing, lead generation, buyer journeys, and search engine optimization.
- Prefer experience building email templates.
About the team
Our team's work on about.gitlab.com serves as the digital front door for GitLab, creating first impressions for potential users and customers while supporting marketing and outreach initiatives across the company. You'll have the unique opportunity to work at the intersection of Engineering and Marketing, contributing to projects that directly impact GitLab's growth while working with cutting-edge technologies.
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
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.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$98,000 - $210,000 USD
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