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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Frontend Engineer (Vue), Create Repository Management - **Company:** GitLab - **Location:** Redruth, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Bug Management, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Code Review, Ember.Js, Performance Tuning, Responsive Web Design, Software Configuration Management, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Web Application Frameworks, Software Repository, ReactJS, Caching, Technical Debt, Rate Limiting, Gitlab, Git, Vue.js, AngularJS, Graphql, Data Management, Front End Software Development, Mocha, Jasmine - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-front-end-engineer/gitlab-job107842857 ## About the Role * Professional experience with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript web framework, such as React, Angular, or Ember, and experience using GraphQL for application programming interface integration and data management. * A solid understanding of semantic hypertext markup language, cascading style sheets, core JavaScript concepts, responsive design, accessibility standards, and frontend performance best practices. * Experience solving complex policy, permissions, or rules-based problems in web applications and making that complexity feel simple and usable. * Experience writing frontend unit and acceptance tests with tools such as Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, ava, or tape, and familiarity with the testing pyramid. * A track record of raising the bar on how your team or group uses artificial intelligence coding agents in a large, complex monorepo, including scoping tasks, reviewing generated code, and knowing when to take direct control, paired with a clear view of where these tools fall short and how to work around it. * Experience using Git in a professional environment and familiarity with collaborative code review processes. * Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including the ability to influence without authority and share useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment. * The ability to manage priorities independently, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance for decisions that are difficult to reverse. ## Description You'll work in one of GitLab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Vue.js and GraphQL to improve a critical system that serves GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. Source Code provides the interface layer, through Gitaly, to the Git repositories that account for a large portion of GitLab traffic. You'll help maintain high reliability through performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency. You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and Source Code Experience to deliver reliable, accessible, and performant experiences., * Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Vue.js and GraphQL. * Turn complex requirements and legacy constraints into clear solutions without compromising the reliability of this critical system. * Partner with product management, product design, and user experience team members to understand customer problems and build intuitive, responsive, and accessible interfaces. * Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts when their input will improve the outcome. * Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output. * Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and advocate for those standards through code review. * Strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, performing root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency. * Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others., The functional team works across Europe and North America, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. It includes six engineers, with one frontend engineer today, so this role offers a meaningful opportunity to coach and mentor others and provide technical leadership in the frontend domain. We work closely with Code Review and Gitaly, alongside sibling teams covering Repository Sync & Interop, Source Code Experience, and Repository Scale, Performance & Git Infrastructure. We're maturing GitLab's branch protection offering while maintaining availability, reliability, and stability through bug fixes and focused technical debt work. 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