Platform Engineer, Character.ai
Frontend
$150-300k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Open for applications
AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-300k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- If you are a skilled software engineer with a deep passion for product development and are interested in the applied AI space, we encourage you to apply!
- 5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building consumer-facing products with a strong interest in building the platform and tooling to accelerate development velocity
- Experience with the React ecosystem, alongside proficiency in other JS frameworks and libraries
- 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
- Proven ability to drive developer productivity through automation, CI/CD, and test infrastructure
- Experience with Python and Golang are a plus as you'll be a liaison with our backend team
What the job involves
- This role is part of the Client Foundations team, which focuses on improving performance, observability, reliability and overall client infrastructure
- As a key contributor to the Core Product, you’ll help build the platform and tools that empower us to develop and maintain reliable, efficient, and scalable web and mobile applications which allow us to delight customers with high velocity and confidence alike
- Develop efficient and reusable 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
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it will need to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
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Leadership
Noam Shazeer
(CEO)Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.
Daniel De Freitas
(President)Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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