Software Engineer, Cross Platform

Responsibilities

About the team:
The Cross Platform Development Tools team has created community open-source build tools like Rspack / Rsbuild, while also maintaining internal web frameworks. Our frontend framework solutions are widely used across the company, helping product development teams enhance R&D efficiency, runtime performance, and product experience.

In this role, you will focus on improving the usability, performance, and tooling experience of JavaScript development tools. You will be dedicated to delivering a high-availability frontend development tool aimed at maintaining peak performance. Also, as a key member of the team, you will also participate in designing and implementing end‑to‑end tooling for JavaScript R&D workflows.

• Work closely with product teams to build innovative and performant web development toolkit.
• Design, implement, maintain and improve the architecture of Rspack, Rsbuild, Rstest etc.
• Analyze and optimize the compile performance, improve JavaScript bundle quality and efficiency.
• Carry out code reviews to ensure code quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in coding& scripting languages such as JavaScript, Type Script, or Rust
• Technical knowledge of Web application (React/Vue/Svelte) development.
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• Development experience with Rust toolkit development such as SWC, lightning CSS, Rspack and etc

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