Senior Product Engineer (Frontend)

Engineering at Plain is about much more than moving tickets from left to right, it’s owning and solving problems end to end - from coming up with ideas to infrastructure and button copy.

You will:

• Ship features to solve customer problems, end to end. You’ll talk to customers to validate ideas and scope features, lead the development of those features day to day and ensure they're rolled out smoothly.

• 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.

• Work closely with Mitchell, our designer, to make sure that the user experience for every feature is top-notch –  from copy to to  UI details and polish.

You should have a proven track record working for product-led companies, ideally in B2B SaaS, be as excited about architectural conversations as you are about customer conversations, and be driven by impact above all.