Software Engineer

GitKraken is hiring engineers to build GitKraken Insights, an engineering intelligence product that helps software teams understand how work moves through their organizations. The role involves shaping product features and delivering full-stack solutions across React, Go, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Turn ambiguous product ideas into scoped technical plans and working software
• Build interfaces that make complex engineering data understandable, trustworthy, and actionable
• Help shape a new product area with active customer demand and plenty of room for product judgment
• Build full stack product features across React, Go, PostgreSQL, and AWS
• Design APIs, data models, and user experiences for engineering intelligence workflows
• Write maintainable, tested code and participate seriously in design reviews, code reviews, and production readiness
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly in PRs, technical notes, and team discussions

Requirements:

• Product judgment: you can reason about users, scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs
• Experience building production software across frontend and backend systems
• Backend engineering experience, ideally with Go or the ability to ramp quickly in Go
• Experience designing APIs with clear contracts, validation, error handling, and sensible edge case behavior
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) as part of your day-to-day flow, with a sense of when to trust them and when not to
• Comfort working with Git, GitHub, pull requests, CI/CD, and code review workflows
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, migrations, and PostgreSQL fundamentals
• Strong React and TypeScript skills
• Clear written communication and a habit of making your reasoning visible
• Clear written communication in English and a habit of making your reasoning visible
• Experience turning ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and shipped product
• Full stack engineering experience across frontend, backend, and data
• React and TypeScript skills, with backend experience in Go or the ability to ramp quickly
• Experience using AI coding tools or agentic coding workflows to plan, build, test, review, or debug software
• SQL and relational data modeling fundamentals, ideally with PostgreSQL
• Experience designing APIs with clear contracts, validation, error handling, and thoughtful edge case behavior