Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance the foundational frontend platforms that support n8n’s workflow-building experience.

• Take ownership and further develop essential frontend platform components to ensure a scalable, extensible, and maintainable workflow builder.

• Strengthen plugin systems, extension points, and enhance the frontend developer experience.

• Modularize the extensive frontend codebase, enabling product teams to leverage shared foundations.

• Architect the canvas-based workflow-building interface.

• Develop and enhance real-time collaboration features utilizing WebSockets, CRDTs, or multiplayer synchronization techniques.

• Create accurate, accessible, and user-friendly systems for complex interactive workflows.

• Optimize rendering performance, runtime behavior, and overall responsiveness.

• Measure, profile, and enhance frontend performance bottlenecks.

• Contribute to web worker orchestration and the overall frontend infrastructure.

• Lead technical decisions through proposals, RFCs, and engineering discussions.

• Collaborate effectively with product engineering, QA, DX, Security, Staff Architects, and the open-source community.

• Provide support to peers through code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developing architecture-intensive frontend products like canvas-based tools, real-time applications, collaborative editors, or similarly intricate interfaces.

• Proficient in measuring, debugging, and enhancing runtime performance in large-scale frontend applications.

• Strong expertise in TypeScript for frontend development.

• Experience working within a large, dynamic codebase.

• Demonstrated ownership of significant frontend systems, migrations, or complex re-architectures.

• A systems-thinking mindset that considers trade-offs, correctness, platform contracts, maintainability, and scalability.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across functions.

• Interest in refactoring, modularization, technical debt reduction, and enhancing existing systems.

• Nice to have: Experience with CRDTs, multiplayer systems, collaborative editors, or real-time communication layers.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with plugin systems, extension architectures, micro-frontends, or web worker orchestration.

• Nice to have: Experience with Vue.js.

• Nice to have: Contributions to or maintenance of open-source projects.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with workflow engines, developer tools, infrastructure-adjacent SaaS, or technical products.

• Nice to have: Exposure to large-scale SaaS environments.

• Nice to have: Experience in cloud, single-tenant, or self-hosted setups.

• Nice to have: Skills in instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and observability.

• Must possess the right to work in countries outside of Germany; n8n can sponsor visas to Germany.

• The company’s working language is English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Equity ownership in n8n.

• In Europe: 30 days of vacation, in addition to public holidays applicable to your location.

• In Europe: Benefits aligned with local country standards.

• In Europe: Pension contributions in accordance with local country norms.

• €1K (or equivalent) annually for courses, books, events, or coaching.

• Participation in regular hackathons.

• Remote-first work policy across Europe.

• Regular off-site events for team bonding.

• $100 monthly allowance to support open-source initiatives.

• Unlimited budget for AI-related projects.

• US-specific: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, along with public holidays.

• US-specific: A variety of low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, including dental and vision coverage, plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-funded HSA.

• US-specific: 401(k) retirement plan featuring a 4% employer match.

• US-specific: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as life insurance.