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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Web Platform Engineer - **Company:** NETIC CORPORATION - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Next.js, TypeScript, Web Applications, Web Usability, Datadog, Data Logging, Network Routers, ReactJS, Material UI, Sentry, Front End Software Development - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-web-platform-engineer-netic-8113569 ## About the Role * Frontend Platform Experience: 5+ years building production web applications, with experience owning a design system, component library, or core frontend abstraction used by multiple product teams. Deep React and TypeScript fluency; strong Next.js experience (App Router, RSC, rendering tradeoffs). * Design System Craft: You've built or substantially contributed to a real design system - not just a folder of components, but the tokens, primitives, accessibility baseline, documentation, and adoption story. You care about the difference between a component that works and one that's genuinely good to build with. * Abstraction Thinking: Ability to design component APIs, hooks, and contracts that remain stable over time while supporting rapid product iteration. You know when to generalize and, more importantly, when not to. * Operational Rigor: Experience with frontend performance work, observability (Sentry/Datadog/equivalent), bundle analysis, migrations across many consumers, and shipping with confidence to production users. * Ownership Mentality: You take responsibility for long-term outcomes, not just shipping code. You think in terms of leverage, developer experience, and second-order effects on every product team downstream. ## Description * Build the Design System and Component Library: Year one, this is the centerpiece. Define the tokens, primitives, and patterns; build a component library product engineers want to use because it's better than rolling their own. Own accessibility, theming, and the contracts that keep the UI coherent as the company grows. * Create Frontend Platform Primitives with Leverage: Build the app shell, routing conventions, auth/session handling, typed API clients, data-fetching patterns, form and table frameworks, and the state primitives that product teams compose into features. Your success is measured by how easily other engineers ship powerful AI-driven product surfaces on top of your work. * Treat Product Engineers as Customers: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to understand their needs, eliminate friction, and design APIs and components that are intuitive, well-documented, and hard to misuse. Office hours, RFCs, migration guides - whatever it takes to make adoption the easy path. * Own Build, Performance, and Client Observability: Take responsibility for the Next.js build pipeline, bundle size, Core Web Vitals, error tracking, client-side logging, and feature-flag/experimentation plumbing. Make intentional tradeoffs around rendering strategy (SSR/RSC/CSR), caching, and code-splitting based on real product needs. * Set Frontend Platform Direction: Work with leadership to define the long-term architecture - build-vs-buy decisions, how the design system evolves, when to split into multiple apps or a monorepo, and how the platform scales as product surface area grows. ## Related Videos - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [But, you're not Facebook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/378-but-you-re-not-facebook) - [From Doubt to Confidence: How Sentry Uses Verdaccio to Bulletproof SDK Releases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/739-from-doubt-to-confidence-how-sentry-uses-verdaccio-to-bulletproof-sdk-releases) - [GraphQL + Apollo + Next.js: A Lovely Trio](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/311-graphql-apollo-next-js-a-lovely-trio) - [Microfrontends at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/236-microfrontends-at-scale) - [From Zero to Hero: NextJS 13 and Tailwind CSS for Beginners](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/766-from-zero-to-hero-nextjs-13-and-tailwind-css-for-beginners) ## Related Articles - [16 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/148-16-best-free-react-ui-libraries-in-2025) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 139 - Soft and hard queries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/487-dev-digest-139-soft-and-hard-queries) - [Dev Digest 159: AI Pipelines, 10x Faster TypeScript, How to Interview](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/563-dev-digest-159-ai-pipelines-10x-faster-typescript-how-to-interview)