Principal Engineer, Frontend
Plane Software, Inc.2 months ago
India (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead Plane’s frontend across work items, boards, documents, and other core product surfaces.
- Own client-side state, synchronization, caching, offline behavior, and conflict resolution.
- Improve frontend performance for large workspaces, including rendering, memory usage, load times, and interaction latency.
- Set frontend architecture and engineering standards and review high-risk designs and implementations.
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers to ship features from API through the user interface.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with React, TypeScript, and frontend architecture at scale.
- Experience building real-time applications using WebSockets, subscriptions, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with local-first systems, client-side persistence, synchronization, caching, and offline behavior.
- Experience diagnosing and fixing frontend performance issues in complex, data-heavy applications.
- Strong understanding of state management and browser architecture, with the ability to design maintainable frontend systems.
- Preferred: experience with collaborative or multi-user applications, concurrent updates, CRDTs, OT, dense products, IndexedDB, Service Workers, virtualization, Web Workers, or large open-source applications.
Benefits
- Work with teams across San Francisco and Hyderabad.
- Contribute to a public repository and open-source product.
- Build software deployed in cloud, sovereign-cloud, customer-cloud, and fully isolated environments.
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About Plane Software, Inc.
Plane Software builds an open-source work management platform that brings projects, knowledge, and service requests into one system for engineering and operations teams. Organizations can run it as a managed cloud service or deploy it on their own infrastructure, including isolated and sovereign clouds—an option valued in regulated industries. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company develops in public on GitHub and serves teams worldwide.