# Software Engineer, Web Platform

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## About the role

As a Software Engineer on Anthropic's Web Platform team, you'll build the foundational layer for Claude.ai, our flagship consumer product. This involves designing and shipping shared components, evolving backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs, and improving build, deploy, and observability systems.

## Key responsibilities

- Improve developer velocity by reducing friction in build, deploy, and testing pipelines.

- Work on performance and reliability: identify and resolve latency issues, improve observability, and establish high standards.

- Design and build shared UI components, libraries, and abstractions for consistent and efficient shipping on web and mobile.

- Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs and shape platform investments.

- Maintain and evolve documentation and tooling for a smooth platform experience.

## Minimum qualifications

- Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript) and experience with APIs serving frontend applications.

- A track record of building things that make other engineers more productive.

- Solid instincts around reliability, observability, and performance in production systems.

- Experience thriving in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

## Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of software engineering experience building shared platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure.

- Experience with shared component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI infrastructure.

- Knowledge of API design and client-server architecture patterns.

- Familiarity with performance optimization, latency reduction, CI/CD, and observability.

## Logistics

- Annual Salary: $320,000-$405,000 USD

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

- Required field of study: Relevant to the role.

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time.

- Visa sponsorship: Available.

## Skills

### Required
- React
- TypeScript
- API design
- reliability
- observability
- performance

### Nice to have
- shared component libraries
- design systems
- client-server architecture
- performance optimization
- CI/CD

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