Role overview

Product Engineer, Product Platform (Frontend)

Requirements and responsibilities

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About The Role

  • Is our core frontend architecture (frameworks, state, routing, SSR/CSR) sound, consistent, and easy to build on?
  • Is our API and data layer reliable and ergonomic, with clear contracts, sensible error handling, and effective caching?
  • Are user-facing surfaces fast and well-instrumented, with testing infrastructure that keeps them safe to change?
  • Is the codebase easy to navigate, change, and extend, including for AI coding agents?

What you’ll do

  • Design platform APIs and shared primitives (not just components) with clear contracts, documentation, and upgrade paths that other teams adopt
  • Profile and instrument real user journeys, then ship the changes that move the numbers
  • Roll out cross-cutting changes safely with codemods, migration paths, and staged rollouts
  • Set technical direction in design and architecture reviews, and document the decisions and operational expectations behind them
  • Work directly with product teams to turn their friction into reusable platform improvements

Required skills and experience

  • Experience shipping and operating user-facing software in production
  • Designed frontend architecture other teams build on (frameworks, state, routing, SSR/CSR, migrations)
  • Built and operated an API/data layer (REST/GraphQL, error handling, caching)
  • Measured and improved client performance with instrumentation and monitoring
  • Made and explained architecture tradeoffs across UX, correctness, delivery speed, and maintainability
  • Comfortable in modern web stacks (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js)

Required skills and experience

  • Meet the Replit Agent
  • Replit: Make an app for that
  • Replit Blog
  • Amjad TED Talk

Required skills and experience

  • Operating Principles
  • Reasons not to work at Replit
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