Senior Staff Engineer, Frontend

The role

You will own the frontend architecture for a local-first, collaborative work management platform. You will manage real-time collaborative editing, set performance and accessibility standards, and decide how agent activity appears in the interface.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of Plane's frontend
• Own real-time collaborative editing end to end
• Set the performance and accessibility bar for dense views
• Decide how agent activity appears in the interface
• Raise the level of frontend engineers through design review, code review, and standards
• Carry migrations through a public codebase

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years building web applications
• Owned the architecture of recent web applications
• Expert in TypeScript and React
• Owned a design system other teams depended on
• Shipped real-time collaborative editing to production
• Raised the level of engineers around you through mentoring, review, and standards

Nice to have

• Worked inside a rich-text editor framework (ProseMirror, Tiptap, Lexical)
• Read Elixir, Go, or Python well enough to follow a bug across the boundary
• Built and shipped an Electron desktop application
• Maintained an open project with outside contributors

About the company

Plane is a work management platform that brings projects, knowledge, and requests into one open, adaptable platform. It is built for a future where humans and AI agents work together.