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About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the technical direction of our frontend platform and build exceptional user experiences for a modern, collaborative product. As a senior technical leader, you will drive frontend architecture, establish engineering best practices, and work across teams to deliver scalable, high-performance applications. This role requires deep expertise in modern frontend technologies, real-time collaboration systems, and performance optimization, along with the ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across the organization.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the frontend architecture and long-term technical strategy.
Design and build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance web applications.
Lead the development of complex user-facing features, reusable UI components, and frontend platforms.
Architect and enhance real-time collaboration capabilities, including synchronization, offline support, and serialization strategies.
Optimize rendering performance, application responsiveness, bundle size, and overall user experience.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Build and evolve reusable design system components and frontend infrastructure.
Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance.
Improve observability by implementing analytics, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
Prototype new technologies, evaluate technical approaches, and introduce engineering best practices.
Contribute to open-source initiatives where appropriate.

Requirements

A minimum of 8+ years of professional experience developing large-scale web applications.
Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and React.js.
Strong expertise in HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, and advanced CSS techniques.
Deep understanding of browser rendering, performance optimization, and memory management.
Experience building scalable component libraries and design systems.
Strong understanding of frontend state management patterns (MobX, Redux, Zustand, or similar).
Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and WebSocket-based applications.
Strong understanding of accessibility (WCAG), usability, and UI/UX best practices.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives across multiple teams.

Skills

TypeScript
JavaScript (ES6+)
React.js
HTML5
CSS3
Responsive design
Advanced CSS techniques
Browser rendering
Performance optimization
Memory management
Component libraries
Design systems
Frontend state management (MobX, Redux, Zustand, or similar)
REST APIs
GraphQL
WebSocket-based applications
Accessibility (WCAG)
Usability
UI/UX best practices
Problem-solving
Communication
Leadership
Mentoring
Technical initiatives
ProseMirror
Tiptap
CRDTs
Operational Transformation (OT)
Electron
Python
Go
Elixir
AWS
Kubernetes
Distributed systems
DataDog
Sentry

Location

San Francisco
Hyderabad

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid
Onsite

Experience Level

Senior Staff

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits.

About the Company

Plane’s mission is to build the infrastructure the world’s work runs on. We want teams to move faster without losing context, and organizations to retain the flexibility and control they need. Our team is building that work infrastructure as an open, adaptable platform for projects, knowledge, and requests—simple enough for any team to adopt and dependable enough for organizations to build on.
Plane began in public on GitHub at the end of 2022. Since then, it has grown from an open-source project into a work management platform used by teams around the world. Organizations can use Plane as a managed Cloud service, run it on their own infrastructure, or deploy it inside fully isolated environments. Building in the open keeps us close to users and raises the standard for what we ship.
We believe the future of work will be shaped by people and agents working together. That makes shared context, explicit state, durable history, and accountable action more important—not less. Plane exists to make that future useful, legible, and within the organization's control.
Plane is backed by OSS Capital and built across San Francisco and Hyderabad. We work in small, collaborative teams, stay close to users, and care about both the visible product experience and the unglamorous details that make software dependable. People own problems end to end and add process only when it helps the work.
We are still early. If you want to help define what work infrastructure becomes—and build software that teams can make their own and organizations can depend on—we'd like to hear from you.