Platform Engineer – Frontend
| Company | Character.AI |
|---|---|
| Location | Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building consumer-facing products with a strong interest in building the platform and tooling to accelerate development velocity
- Experience with the React ecosystem, alongside proficiency in other JS frameworks and libraries
- Deep understanding of Typescript, Javascript, Tailwind, HTML, and modern front end design patterns and best practices
- Familiarity with performance tuning, observability, and diagnostic tools, such as Sentry, BigQuery, and Statsig
- Knowledge of API frameworks like tRPC and their role in frontend-backend communication and orchestration
- Proven ability to drive developer productivity through automation, CI/CD, and test infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Develop efficient and reusable frontend abstractions and systems to accelerate product development velocity
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our web and mobile client infrastructure
- Drive efforts to enhance observability, logging, and diagnostics for client-side systems, using tools like Sentry and BigQuery
- Collaborate on initiatives such as automation testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure improvements
- Build tools and frameworks to simplify development workflows and maintain consistent well-understood client-side architecture
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Python and Golang are a plus as you’ll be a liaison with our backend team