San Francisco · On-site

Senior Staff Engineer, Frontend

Full-timePosted 5 Sept

Salary: ₹12–20 LPA
Experience: 8–12 years
Eligible batches: 2024 · 2025 · 2026
Degree: Any graduate
Location: San FranciscoOn-site

About the role

Plane is building an open, adaptable work management platform that unifies projects, knowledge, and requests. As a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer you will own the architecture of the web client, handling real‑time collaborative editing, performance, accessibility, and integration with AI agents across cloud and on‑prem deployments.

Responsibilities

Own the frontend architecture, defining state flow, sync boundaries, and shared component guarantees.
Design and implement real‑time collaborative editing, including transport, offline behavior, and conflict resolution.
Set performance and accessibility standards for dense views handling tens of thousands of items.
Define how AI agent activity is presented, ensuring visibility and authority comparable to human actions.
Mentor and raise the level of frontend engineers across San Francisco and Hyderabad through reviews and standards.
Manage migrations in a public codebase, ensuring smooth upgrades for external contributors and self‑hosted customers.

Eligibility

8+ years building web applications with deep ownership of architecture.
Expertise in TypeScript and React, capable of low‑level performance debugging.
Experience owning a design system used across multiple teams.
Delivered production‑ready real‑time collaborative editing (CRDTs, OT, etc.).
Proven track record of mentoring engineers and establishing lasting standards.

Skills

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSMobXProseMirror (or similar rich‑text editor)WebSocket real‑time syncElectronVite / Rolldown build toolsAWS, Kubernetes, RancherObservability tools (Datadog, Sentry)

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Benefits

Work on a product used by Fortune 500 companies and fast‑growing startups.
Open‑source driven culture with public repositories and transparent roadmaps.
Opportunity to shape the future of human‑AI collaborative work.
Supportive, tightly‑knit teams across multiple continents.

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About Plane

Plane builds an open, adaptable work management platform that combines projects, knowledge, and requests into a single collaborative system.

Founded 2022 · 51-200 employees · HQ Hyderabad, India

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