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Senior Staff Engineer, Frontend

Plane· Engineering
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United StatesFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Engineer leading Plane's frontend architecture and real-time collaborative editing, owning state flow, integration with Elixir sync services, design system guarantees, performance and accessibility for large-scale views, and mentoring frontend engineers across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture of Plane's frontend: how state moves through the client, where the boundary with the Elixir sync service sits, and what the shared component library guarantees to every team building on it.
  • Own real-time collaborative editing end to end, including transport, offline behavior, serialization, and what the interface does when two edits cannot both be right.
  • Set the performance and accessibility bar for dense views and hold the product to it. Rendering paths, memory, and bundle size in workspaces holding tens of thousands of issues.
  • Decide how agent activity appears in the interface, so that a change made by a machine carries its authority and its history as visibly as one made by a person.
  • Raise the level of the frontend engineers around you in San Francisco and Hyderabad, through design review, code review, and standards that hold after you stop pushing them.
  • Carry migrations through a public codebase, where community contributors and self-hosted customers running months-old versions all feel the change.

Qualifications

  • You have eight or more years building web applications, and you owned the architecture of the recent ones.
  • You are expert in TypeScript and React.
  • You have owned a design system other teams depended on.
  • You have shipped real-time collaborative editing to production.
  • You have raised the level of engineers around you.

Skills

Required:Web application architectureTypeScriptReactDesign systems
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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