n8n

Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

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Publicada14 de jul. de 2026

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Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Requisitos e 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.

Frontend platform architecture

Own and evolve core frontend platform primitives that make n8n’s workflow builder scalable, extensible, and maintainable.
Strengthen platform contracts such as plugin systems, extension points, and frontend developer experience.
Help modularize a large, evolving frontend codebase so product teams can build confidently on top of shared foundations.

Canvas, collaboration, and real-time systems

Work on the architecture behind n8n’s canvas-based workflow building experience.
Build and improve real-time collaboration capabilities using approaches such as WebSockets, CRDTs, or multiplayer synchronization patterns.
Design frontend systems with correctness, accessibility, and user experience in mind, especially for complex interactive workflows.

Performance and rendering foundations

Improve rendering performance, runtime behavior, and responsiveness across complex workflow-building experiences.
Use performance measurement, profiling, and optimization techniques to identify bottlenecks and improve user experience.
Contribute to web worker orchestration and other frontend infrastructure that helps n8n scale to more complex use cases.

Technical contribution and collaboration

Drive technical decisions through clear proposals, RFCs, and collaborative engineering discussions.
Partner closely with product engineers, QA, DX, Security, Staff Architects, and the open-source community to ensure platform changes integrate smoothly.
Support peers through code reviews, pairing, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Must-haves

🧱 Complex frontend systems: You’ve built architecture-heavy frontend products such as canvas-based tools, real-time applications, collaborative editors, or similarly complex interfaces.
⚡ Performance and rendering depth: You can measure, debug, and improve runtime performance in large frontend applications.
🛠️ TypeScript expertise: You have strong TypeScript frontend experience and are comfortable working in a large, evolving codebase.
🏗️ Architectural ownership: You’ve owned meaningful frontend systems, led migrations, or re-architected complex areas of a product.
🧠 Systems thinking mindset: You think in trade-offs, correctness, platform contracts, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
🤝 Collaboration: You communicate clearly, work cross-functionally, and enjoy enabling other engineers rather than building in isolation.
🧹 Pragmatic engineering: You’re excited by refactoring, modularization, tech debt reduction, and improving existing systems over time.

Nice-to-haves

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Real-time collaboration: You have experience with CRDTs, multiplayer systems, collaborative editors, or real-time communication layers.
🧵 Frontend platform patterns: You’ve worked with plugin systems, extension architectures, micro-frontends, or web worker orchestration.
🖥️ Vue experience: You have experience with Vue or are excited to work deeply in a Vue-based frontend codebase.
🌍 Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts and backward compatibility.
🧰 Developer tools or workflow products: You’ve worked on workflow engines, developer tools, infrastructure-adjacent SaaS, or other technical products.
📈 Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale, complexity, or long-term maintainability challenges.
☁️ Multi-deployment awareness: You’ve built products that work across cloud, single-tenant, or self-hosted environments.
🔭 Observability mindset: You care about instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and making complex systems easier to operate.

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.
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.
Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.