What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer, Frontend position at Character?
About the Role and Team
At Character, we're building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent dialog agents. This role is part of the Client Foundations team, focusing on improving performance, observability, reliability, and overall client infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop efficient 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.
Requirements:
We're looking for a skilled software engineer with 5 years of experience in building consumer-facing products, including:
- A strong interest in building platform and tooling to accelerate development velocity.
- Experience with the React ecosystem and proficiency in other JS frameworks and libraries.
- A 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.
- A proven ability to drive developer productivity through automation, CI/CD, and test infrastructure.
- Experience with Python and Golang is a plus, as you'll be liaising with our backend team.
About Character.AI
Founded in 2021, Character is a leading AI company offering personalized experiences through customizable AI 'Characters.' We've achieved unicorn status and were named Google Play's AI App of the Year – a testament to our groundbreaking technology and vision.
At Character, we value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. As an equal opportunity employer, we uphold a non-discrimination policy based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.
