Software Engineer, UI Platform
full-time
senior
Posted 11 months ago
About this role
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role:
Claude.ai is Anthropic's flagship consumer product, spanning web, mobile, desktop, and browser extensions—and it's growing fast. The UI Platform team owns the foundational layer that makes all of this possible: the shared infrastructure, components, APIs, and tooling that let every other product team at Anthropic ship quickly, reliably, and with confidence.
As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll be hands-on building the platform that other engineers depend on every day. This means designing and shipping shared components and design-system-level abstractions, evolving the backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs that power our client applications, and improving the build, deploy, and observability systems that keep Claude.ai running smoothly across surfaces. Your work will directly shape how fast teams across Anthropic can innovate—and how stable their experiences are when they do.
This is a great fit if you care deeply about developer experience and want your engineering work to have outsized leverage: instead of shipping one feature, you're building the tools and systems that make dozens of features possible.
Responsibilities:
Design and build shared UI components, libraries, and abstractions that product teams across Anthropic use to ship consistently and efficiently on web and mobile
Contribute to the BFF API layer that powers Claude.ai's client applications—thinking carefully about clean contracts, performance, and reliability at the boundary between frontend and backend
Improve developer velocity across the organization by reducing friction in our build, deploy, and testing pipelines
Work on performance and reliability: identify and resolve latency issues, improve observability, and help establish high standards that the rest of the platform team can build on
Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs, unblock them when possible, and shape platform investments around where the most impact is
Help maintain and evolve documentation and tooling that make the platform approachable for engineers joining or building on top of it
You may be a good fit if you:
Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building shared platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure that other engineers rely on
Have strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js) and experience designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications
Care about developer experience and have a track record of building things that make other engineers more productive
Have solid instincts around reliability, observability, and performance—and enjoy operationalizing those instincts in production systems
Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners
Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
Building shared component libraries or design systems for multiple surfaces (web, mobile, desktop)
BFF architectures and API patterns that balance flexibility with consistency across client platforms
Performance optimization and latency reduction in consumer-facing applications
CI/CD, build systems, and deployment automation
Observability and monitoring (metrics, logging, tracing)
Working on AI/ML products or in rapidly evolving product environments
Candidates need not have:
100% of the skills needed to perform the job
Formal certifications or education credentials
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$320,000 — $405,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and
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