Senior Engineer I-II| Core Workflow Engine| Remote| Europe

Requisitos y responsabilidades

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Details

Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation
Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.

Backend platform foundations (execution, orchestration, data)

Contribute to backend subsystems like durable workflow execution & state, orchestration patterns, queue/task distribution, and system modularization.
Apply best practices for correctness and resilience (e.g., failure modes, idempotency, state handling) in systems that operate across cloud and self-hosted environments.
Improve data architecture and database performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Frontend platform foundations (canvas, collaboration, performance)

Work on the core canvas architecture and frontend platform primitives that enable complex workflow building experiences.
Build and improve real-time collaboration capabilities (e.g., WebSockets, CRDT-style approaches) with a focus on correctness and user experience.
Contribute to performance and rendering improvements (e.g., web workers, rendering optimization), and help strengthen platform contracts (plugin system, FE DX).

Technical contribution & collaboration

Contribute to technical decisions through clear proposals (e.g., RFCs) and discussions.
Collaborate with other teams to ensure platform changes integrate smoothly.
Support peers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.

Must-haves

🧠 Systems thinking mindset: You think about correctness, trade-offs, and reliability — and enjoy working on foundational platform problems.
🏗️ System design experience: You’ve contributed to system design decisions or worked on significant components, and can explain your technical choices clearly.
🛠️ TypeScript depth: You have strong TypeScript experience and you’re comfortable working in a large, evolving codebase.
🤝 Collaboration: You communicate well, work cross-functionally, and collaborate effectively with other engineers.
🧹 Pragmatic engineering: You’re comfortable improving and refactoring existing systems to make them more scalable and maintainable.

For backend-focused candidates:

🧩 Node.js backend systems: You’ve built backend systems in TypeScript/Node.js beyond CRUD.
🌐 Distributed systems: You understand event-driven patterns, idempotency, and reliability in distributed environments.
🗄️ Data architecture: You’ve worked on data-intensive services, including performance and operational considerations.

For frontend-focused candidates:

🧱 Complex frontend systems: You’ve built architecture-heavy frontend products (e.g., canvas, real-time, collaborative, or similarly complex apps).
⚡ Performance expertise: You have experience with rendering performance optimization and can measure and improve runtime behavior.
🖥️ Modern frontend TypeScript: You’re strong in TypeScript frontend development; Vue experience is preferred but not required.

Nice-to-haves

🧰 Workflow/orchestration or devtools experience: You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS.
🌍 Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained OSS, and understand public API contracts and backward compatibility.
📈 Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale or complexity.
🧩 Monolith → modular migrations: You’ve contributed to decomposing monoliths or evolving systems toward modular architectures.
🧾 Durable execution patterns: Familiarity with event-driven or workflow execution patterns (e.g., queues, retries, sagas).
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Collaboration tech (FE): Experience with collaborative or real-time applications.
🧵 Frontend platform patterns (FE): Experience with plugin systems, micro-frontends, or web workers.
☁️ Multi-deployment awareness: Exposure to both cloud and self-hosted environments.
🔭 Observability mindset: You care about operability (instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety).

Benefits

Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Health & wellness 🩺 –Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
Future planning 💰 –Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Financial security 🛡️ –Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.