Senior Product Engineer (Frontend)

You’ll be one of the most senior individual contributors in our frontend discipline. So while you’ll be very hands-on, you’ll also have a huge impact on what we build, how we build it, and in helping build a frontend discipline known beyond Plain for the quality of its work.

Together with the team, you will work on everything from our most complex challenges to the smallest product improvements.

Here are some examples of things we need help with right now:

• Getting state management right: We've currently normalizing GraphQL queries into a global cache and updating entities via Websockets. Although functional we have a long road ahead to make this faster, more resilient and faster to build with. Fixing this will require some deep thinking and love around our frontend architecture.

• Building a great multiplayer experience: We want to make sure Plain is a delight to use with large teams. We need to develop a more resilient way to allow multiple people to be aware of each other when using Plain, and do so in a technically resilient way which handles all the complex conflicts and race conditions which come with multiplayer support.

• Improving our writing experience: Like Slack, typing is at the heart of Plain, so we want to deeply invest in our writing experience. We want to give you full keyboard control over Plain, let you seamlessly compose rich messages with code snippets, inline images and videos, and make it a breeze to help your customers. This will require some UI heavy lifting, and is the perfect challenge for someone excited about getting even the smallest interaction details right.