Senior Software Engineer, Client Apps Platform

About this role

About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States Overview You’ll join the Client Apps Platform team, the connective tissue between GitHub’s client applications (gh-CLI, Desktop, Mobile) and feature ‑ owning backend teams

You’ll build and operate Ruby and Go services, drive architecture and cross team design, and identify opportunities to extract shared platform capabilities to accelerate client teams. This role offers deep exposure to distributed systems, cross ‑ surface architecture, and influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries. About the Team The Client Apps Platform team plays a unique role at GitHub

We focus on facilitation, collaboration, and thoughtful system design, helping navigate the creative tension between client experiences and backend capabilities while building shared platform solutions that scale across GitHub. Responsibilities Maintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies. Lead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs

Translate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components. Collaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required. Define testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor tele

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