## distributed

Core Skills and Knowledge:

* Distributed Systems Concepts: Deep understanding of concepts like consensus,
replication, partitioning, consistency models (e.g., eventual consistency,
strong consistency), fault tolerance, and handling failures in distributed
environments.

* Concurrency Control: Experience with locking mechanisms,
distributed locks, and techniques for managing concurrent access to shared
resources in a distributed setting. This is directly relevant to the locking
we're implementing for timelines and special indexes.

* Data Modeling and Management: Understanding of how to model data in a
  distributed context,
including considerations for data distribution, replication, and indexing.
Experience with distributed databases or data stores would be a plus.

* Backend Development: Strong programming skills in languages relevant to your stack
(e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java). Experience building backend
services and APIs.

* Networking: Understanding of network protocols,
inter-process communication, and network topologies in distributed systems.

* System Design: Ability to design and architect distributed systems,
considering scalability, availability, and performance.

* Troubleshooting and Debugging: Experience debugging complex issues in
distributed environments, which can be challenging due to the asynchronous
nature and potential for partial failures.

* Deep Version Control: Strong skills not only with using version control
 systems, but with how they work internally.

Specific Responsibilities in your Context:


* Implementing and maintaining distributed data structures: This directly
 relates
to the timelines and special indexes we're working on, ensuring they are
consistent and reliable in a distributed environment.

* Developing and optimizing
concurrency control mechanisms: Designing and implementing the locking and other
synchronization primitives needed to manage concurrent access to data.

* Ensuring
data consistency and integrity: Developing strategies and implementing
mechanisms to maintain data consistency across distributed replicas and handle
potential conflicts.

* Designing and implementing distributed algorithms:
Creating algorithms for tasks like data replication, partitioning, and fault
tolerance.

* Monitoring and performance tuning: Monitoring the performance of the
distributed system and identifying and addressing bottlenecks.

* Working with
distributed infrastructure: Experience with cloud platforms, containerization
(Docker, Kubernetes), and other technologies used to deploy and manage
distributed systems.

Additional Desirable Qualities:

* Experience with CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types): Given the nature
 of
ibGibs and their potential for concurrent modifications, experience with CRDTs
or similar data structures that handle conflicts gracefully would be highly
valuable.

* Knowledge of gossip protocols or other decentralized communication
patterns: This could be relevant if you explore more decentralized approaches to
data synchronization.

* Experience with event-driven architectures: Distributed
systems often leverage eventing for communication and coordination.  In summary,
you're looking for someone who understands the complexities of building reliable
and scalable systems that run on multiple machines, can design and implement the
necessary algorithms and data structures, and is comfortable working with the
challenges of concurrency and potential failures inherent in distributed
environments.

## front end

Job Title: Senior Frontend Framework Engineer (or Senior UI Platform Engineer)

Choose the title that best reflects whether the primary focus is on the
framework itself or the broader UI ecosystem/platform you're building.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Frontend Framework Engineer to
lead the design and development of our custom, cutting-edge frontend framework.
This isn't just about building applications; it's about creating the core
architecture, component model, and integration layers that power our highly
interactive, agent-integrated, and dynamically generated user interfaces. You
will work at the intersection of frontend engineering, distributed systems, and
AI interaction design, building the very foundation upon which our future
products will be built.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain the core architecture and component model of our
custom frontend framework.  Implement robust integration patterns for the
Command API, enabling seamless interaction between the UI and backend/agent
systems.  Develop and evolve the framework's capabilities for dynamic UI
generation, potentially driven by data, schemas, or agent interactions.  Design
and build reusable, high-performance UI components within the custom framework.
Collaborate closely with backend engineers, AI/agent developers, and product
designers to define requirements and technical solutions.  Establish coding
standards, best practices, and documentation for the custom framework and its
usage.  Optimize the framework and application performance, ensuring a smooth
and responsive user experience, especially in a distributed context.  Explore
and integrate innovative frontend techniques to support agent-driven interfaces
and complex interactive patterns.

Required Qualifications:

Proven experience designing, building, or significantly contributing to the
development of a frontend framework, UI library, or complex UI component system
from scratch or near-scratch. Deep expertise in core web technologies: HTML,
CSS, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.  Strong understanding of frontend
architecture patterns, state management principles, and rendering performance in
the browser.  Experience with API integration, including understanding of
different communication paradigms.  Ability to think critically about complex
user interface problems and translate them into scalable and maintainable code.
Experience with frontend testing strategies and tools.  Excellent
problem-solving and debugging skills in complex, multi-layered systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with or understanding of concepts in distributed systems,
concurrency, or data synchronization relevant to frontend applications.
Familiarity with AI agents, interactive systems, or designing interfaces for
complex automated processes.  Experience with dynamic form generation,
schema-driven UI development, or meta-programming in a frontend context.
Experience with existing modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue,
Svelte) and a critical understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
Experience with build tools (Webpack, Rollup, Vite) and optimizing frontend
build processes.  Contributions to open-source frontend projects.  Why this role
is unique:

This isn't a standard frontend role. You'll be working on the foundational layer
of a system that tightly integrates UI with distributed data and intelligent
agents. If you're passionate about building powerful developer tools and
tackling novel challenges in frontend architecture, this is an opportunity to
have a significant impact.
