Senior Build & Developer Platform Engineer

Plan A Technologies is seeking a Senior Build & Developer Platform Engineer to enhance build performance, reduce CI waste, and standardize tooling across a large, fragmented codebase. This role requires significant Bazel expertise and focuses on frontend build standardization to enable faster iteration and safer dependency management for hundreds of applications. The engineer will collaborate with frontend and platform teams to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability within the build ecosystem, acting as a senior advisor on build system design and best practices.

Must Have

• Optimize and tune Bazel builds for speed, reliability, and scalability
• Standardize frontend build pipelines and configurations
• Reduce duplication and inefficiencies across CI workflows
• Improve supportability and maintainability of build tooling
• Collaborate with frontend teams to align on shared dependencies and patterns
• Act as a senior advisor on build system design and best practices
• 7+ years of software or platform engineering experience
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Bazel in large codebases
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and build optimization
• Experience supporting frontend build tooling at scale
• Experience standardizing builds across micro-frontend architectures
• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript frontend ecosystems

Perks & Benefits

• Generous vacation schedule
• Brand New Laptop
• Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment

JOB OVERVIEW

Plan A Technologies is looking for a Senior Build & Developer Platform Engineer to improve build performance, reduce CI waste, and standardize tooling across a large and fragmented codebase. This role focuses heavily on Bazel expertise and frontend build standardization, enabling faster iteration and safer dependency management across hundreds of applications.

You will work closely with frontend and platform teams to bring consistency, scalability, and maintainability to the build ecosystem.

Please note: you must have at least 4+ years of hands-on experience with Bazel in large codebases to be considered for this role.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Optimize and tune Bazel builds for speed, reliability, and scalability
• Standardize frontend build pipelines and configurations
• Reduce duplication and inefficiencies across CI workflows
• Improve supportability and maintainability of build tooling
• Collaborate with frontend teams to align on shared dependencies and patterns
• Act as a senior advisor on build system design and best practices

EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years of software or platform engineering experience
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Bazel in large codebases
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and build optimization
• Experience supporting frontend build tooling at scale
• Ability to work across teams and influence technical standards
• Experience standardizing builds across micro-frontend architectures
• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript frontend ecosystems
• Experience improving developer experience (DX) at scale
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, Brand New Laptop, and other goodies.