Product Engineer, Product Platform (Frontend)
Replit · Foster City, CA · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$200k–$300k/yrFull-time
About the role
The role focuses on the frontend platform, owning the architecture and platform layer behind core product experiences such as application frameworks, the API and data layer, testing infrastructure, and client performance. The goal is to ensure product teams ship quickly and reliably on what you build.
Responsibilities
- Design platform APIs and shared primitives with clear contracts, documentation, and upgrade paths that other teams adopt
- Profile and instrument real user journeys, then ship the changes that move the numbers
- Roll out cross-cutting changes safely with codemods, migration paths, and staged rollouts
- Work with product teams to turn their friction into reusable platform improvements
- Work directly with product teams to turn their friction into reusable platform improvements
- Make and explain architecture tradeoffs across UX, correctness, delivery speed, and maintainability
- Document the decisions and operational expectations behind technical direction in design and architecture reviews
Requirements
- Experience shipping and operating user-facing software in production
- Designed frontend architecture other teams build on (frameworks, state, routing, SSR/CSR, migrations)
- Built and operated an API/data layer (REST/GraphQL, error handling, caching)
- Made and explained architecture tradeoffs across UX, correctness, delivery speed, and maintainability
- Comfortable in modern web stacks (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js)
Qualifications
- Experience with modern web stacks (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js)