Fullstack Engineer, Typescript

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An overview of this role

The  Create:Editor Extensions team is part of the  Create Stage in the  Dev Sub-department . The Create stage focuses on multiple  categories : Editor Extensions, Code Suggestions, the Web IDE, Remote Development, and more.

Our team works on  Editor Extensions that support developers directly in their IDEs, where they spend the majority of their time.

You’ll be working on the  VS Code extension . Joining the Editor Extensions team provides the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI enhancement projects, which are at the forefront of technological advancements. The team's focus on expanding IDE support for the VS Code Extension and the Language Server offers an exciting challenge and a chance to contribute to innovative solutions.

Some examples of our projects: 

What you’ll do

• Backend Topics: TypeScript, Node.js, Language Server, Git
• Frontend Topics: TypeScript, CSS, Vue
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity. Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via the maintainer program at own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.

What you’ll bring 

• Mandatory: significant professional experience with Typescript or JavaScript
• Mandatory: professional experience with VS Code Extension
• Language Server Expertise
• Visual Studio Code API
• Implement and Optimize Language Servers: Develop and optimize Language Servers for specific programming languages, ensuring efficient communication with code editors.
• Language Server Protocol (LSP) Mastery: In-depth understanding and practical experience with the Language Server Protocol, facilitating seamless integration between language servers and code editors.
• Understanding Extension Points: VS Code provides various extension points, such as editors, languages, themes, and more. Understanding how to leverage these extension points to enhance or extend the functionality of VS Code is key.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

About the team

We are currently focused on bringing  Code Suggestions to more IDEs, by building dedicated extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Neovim, and GitLab’s Web IDE. We work on  multiple projects written in Typescript, Kotlin, C#, and Lua.

Thanks to our  Transparency value, you can see how we work in our  Team page. You can even see our roadmaps ( Editor Extensions ,  Code Suggestions ) and  listen to some of our meetings. 

How GitLab will support you

• All remote asynchronous work environment
• 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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