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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** GitLab
- **Location:** Palakkad, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Relational Databases, Ruby, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Caching, Backend, Git, Integration Tests, Graphql
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/6b887fd9-223b-4f72-a5be-2e46a9de9b75/backend-engineer-create-repository-management

## About the Role

- Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL or the ability to learn them.
- An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
- Experience contributing to policy, permissions, or rules-based features in web applications and helping make that complexity reliable and maintainable.
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with Git and collaborative code review processes.
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding tools or agents, with the ability to review their output and recognize when additional guidance is needed.
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates and collaborating in a remote, asynchronous environment.
- The ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership of your work, and seek guidance for decisions that are difficult to reverse.




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