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As a Staff Frontend Engineer (Vue.js), in the Plan:Knowledge group, you’ll shape how knowledge flows across GitLab by building intuitive, high-performing interfaces for features like Wiki, Pages, Markdown, Text Editors, and the GitLab Query Language (GLQL). You’ll be the Engineering Manager’s key technical partner on frontend topics, setting architecture direction, defining patterns, and making decisions that help technical and non-technical users collaborate in the same place they plan, code, and deploy. Working primarily in Vue.js with our Rich Text Editor (TipTap/ProseMirror) and GraphQL APIs, you’ll lead complex initiatives like collaborative editing at scale, accessibility improvements, and performance optimization for large documents, while mentoring other engineers and raising the quality bar across the Plan stage. In your first year, you’ll be expected to drive foundational frontend improvements, influence cross-team technical decisions, and contribute to AI-powered capabilities that make GitLab’s knowledge tools more powerful and reliable for thousands of organizations.
Some examples of our projects:
- Evolving the Rich Text Editor to support real-time, collaborative editing for large, complex documents
- Building GLQL Views that turn complex data into clear, usable interfaces for diverse user personas
- Lead the design and evolution of our Vue.js frontend architecture, setting patterns and best practices that improve reliability, accessibility, and performance across Plan:Knowledge.
- Develop intuitive, high-quality user interfaces for Wiki, Pages, Markdown, Text Editors, and GitLab Query Language (GLQL) Views, ensuring they work well for both technical and non-technical users.
- Drive the technical direction of the Rich Text Editor (TipTap/ProseMirror), including collaborative editing experiences, large-document performance, and consistent behavior across browsers and devices.
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers, Product, UX, Security, and Technical Writing to ship iterative, well-scoped improvements that meaningfully enhance knowledge management workflows.
- Mentor and coach frontend engineers on the team, improving code quality, testing practices, and technical decision-making through thoughtful pairing, reviews, and documentation.
- Improve frontend test coverage and reliability using automated testing, monitoring, and debugging practices that prevent regressions and reduce incidents in production.
- Partner with adjacent Plan stage teams and frontend technical leaders to align on shared components, patterns, and standards that keep the GitLab frontend cohesive and maintainable.
- Contribute to AI-powered features and experiments within our knowledge tools, using GitLab Duo and other AI capabilities to streamline content creation, discovery, and collaboration.
- Proven experience leading frontend technical direction and influencing architecture decisions across complex products, ideally in a staff-level or equivalent role
- Strong proficiency with Vue.js and modern JavaScript, including state management, performance optimization, and debugging for large, interactive applications
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining rich text editor experiences (for example with TipTap, ProseMirror, Slate, or similar frameworks) and working with GraphQL APIs
- Practical understanding of accessibility standards and testing, ensuring interfaces work reliably across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies
- Experience designing, reviewing, and shipping iterative, user-facing features in close collaboration with Product, UX, Security, and backend engineering partners
- Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers, give and receive constructive feedback in code review, and help teams break down complex problems into shippable iterations
- Comfortable working in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with clear written communication, thorough documentation, and an ownership mindset
- Openness to learning, working with AI-assisted tooling, and applying transferable skills from related frameworks, languages, or domains even if your background is not an exact match
The Plan:Knowledge group exists to make knowledge a first-class part of the GitLab DevSecOps Platform by ensuring information flows freely instead of getting trapped in silos. The team owns core knowledge capabilities including Wiki, Pages, Markdown, Text Editors (including our Rich Text Editor built on TipTap/ProseMirror), and the GitLab Query Language (GLQL) views, working within the broader GitLab Plan Stage and collaborating closely with adjacent product groups. Today the group consists of a small, focused team of frontend and backend engineers supported by a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Designer, and Technical Writer, all working asynchronously across EMEA, AMER, and APAC. The team is currently focused on evolving GitLab from a “useful documentation tool” into a robust, collaborative knowledge solution that serves both highly technical users and non-technical contributors in the same workflows where they plan, code, and deploy, while tackling challenges like large-scale collaborative editing, accessibility, performance, and AI-powered knowledge experiences.
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- 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.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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