
Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, App Platform
Calendly
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $224,400 - $283,800 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain the services and frameworks that product teams depend on
- Work hands-on with technologies like React and Webpack to build highly resilient, scalable systems; from real-time server-to-client data infrastructure to shared frontend services
- Contribute to architectural decision and technical strategy for the platform that drives the look and feel of our frontend
- Provide guidance to engineers across the organization, share your expertise in frontend platform systems, and help establish patterns and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence
- Own and contribute to significant projects from concept to production
- Deliver high impact solutions with quality and reliability at the forefront
- Partner with product managers, designers, and engineering teams across Calendly to translate their needs into robust platform solutions
- Ensure reliability and performance of platform services through thoughtful monitoring, testing, and incident response
- Participate in on-call rotation to support business-critical systems and drive continuous improvement based on operational learnings.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience at a SaaS or technology company, with a strong focus on modern frontend architecture
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and Webpack (or comparable build tooling), including application architecture, dependency management, and performance optimization
- Experience designing and maintaining shared frontend platforms, libraries, and infrastructure used across multiple teams
- Proven ability to own and evolve package ecosystems (versioning, upgrades, migrations, and compatibility across apps)
- Experience building systems and processes that keep frontend dependencies up to date, stable, and aligned across teams
- Ability to partner with product engineering teams to improve application architecture, performance, and maintainability in React apps
- Strong debugging skills, with experience diagnosing cross-app issues spanning packages, build systems, runtime behavior, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience supporting large-scale migrations (e.g., library upgrades, architectural shifts, routing changes, state management transitions)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, and automation for frontend packages and applications
- Comfortable acting as a force multiplier: unblocking teams, providing architectural guidance, and reducing single-points-of-failure in the frontend ecosystem
- Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with design system teams, product engineers, and infrastructure partners
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time.
Benefits
- Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive)
- equity awards
- competitive benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ReactTypeScriptWebpackfrontend architectureapplication architecturedependency managementperformance optimizationdebuggingCI/CD pipelinesautomation
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationguidanceproblem-solvingleadership