Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab (Bangalore) designing and shipping frontend features for the platform's core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. Day to day: frontend architecture, testing, performance and reliability, mentoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows in a remote-first, async org.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bangalore, India
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience applying frontend architecture, browser behavior, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability practices in a complex product or platform environment
- Experience designing or evolving modular frontend boundaries, independently buildable surfaces, component systems, or migration-safe architectures
- Experience making pragmatic trade-offs with product and design partners and turning complex requirements into clear user experiences
- Ability to lead through technical judgment, collaboration, and clear written communication rather than formal authority
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices through code review, design review, documentation, or hands-on collaboration
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, asynchronous organization by managing priorities, creating clarity, and communicating decisions in writing
- Practical experience integrating AI into a feature, workflow, or engineering process, or evaluating its reliability, security, privacy, and appropriate human oversight
Nice to have
- Experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage
- Experience with REST or GraphQL
- Experience with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with Prometheus or Sentry
- Experience with Git, GitLab Runner, or GitLab CI/CD
Full description
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
Senior Frontend Engineer
An overview of this role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll solve high-scope frontend problems and influence your team's technical and product direction. You'll ship moderately sized features with minimal guidance, improve quality and performance, mentor other engineers, and help establish standards for a high-scale web environment. You'll partner across product, design, backend, and frontend to make sound trade-offs, communicate clearly, and improve how the team delivers software.
This is an opportunity to shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global platform while helping define how modern frontend teams use agentic artificial intelligence. You'll apply artificial intelligence-assisted engineering workflows thoughtfully and help create trustworthy user experiences that incorporate artificial intelligence responsibly in a remote-first, asynchronous organization.
What you’ll do
- Design and ship moderately sized frontend features and improvements with minimal guidance, making pragmatic architectural choices.
- Turn ambiguous customer and product needs into clear technical plans and intuitive, accessible experiences.
- Advocate for product quality, security, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.
- Establish and improve practices for frontend architecture, styling, component design, testing, observability, maintainable code, and thoughtful use of artificial intelligence and agentic tools in production engineering work.