Together AI is seeking a highly experienced Staff Engineer to join the Product Engineering team, to own and evolve the Product UI Platform — the architectural foundation that powers how product teams build full-stack features across our web surface.This role is responsible for evolving the product runtime from its current monolithic growth architecture to a scalable, modular, and high-leverage platform that supports increasing scale, reliability requirements, and a growing number of feature engineers. You will define and drive the technical direction of the Next.js/typescript/nodejs web runtime, BFF layer, and application integration patterns, partnering peer-to-peer with Backend and API Platform leaders to ensure cohesive architectural evolution across layers. This is a deeply hands-on role for and experienced engineer with real life experience leading and implementing architectural evolution and is ready to take full ownership of a critical technical domain.
Responsibilities
- Lead the next phase of architectural evolution for the product application platform
- Design and implement foundational platform primitives used across product teams
- Reduce architectural entropy and duplication across the web surface
- Improve application-level performance and reliability metrics
- Drive incremental modularization without disrupting feature velocity
- Establish performance budgets and enforce application-layer guardrails
- Partner with Backend Platform to shape API ergonomics and integration boundaries
- Collaborate with SRE to ensure runtime stability and production readiness
- Write and maintain critical-path platform code
- Establish durable standards for how full-stack features are built
- Mentor engineers and help scale the platform capability over time
Requirements
- 8+ years building production-grade web applications and backend systems
- Demonstrated ownership of a product application platform used by multiple teams
- Deep expertise in React/Next.js/TypeScript and server-side application architecture
- Strong backend experience with TypeScript
- Experience evolving monolith architectures into modular systems
- Web Vitals performance optimization experience across browser → API → data layers
- Proven ability to drive and implement architectural change in a cross functional collaborative environment
- Experience establishing technical standards and scaling developer velocity
- History of owning complex technical decisions and their outcomes
San Francisco Hybrid Full-time USD 200,000 – 275,000 / year