Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

🕒 August 7

🌐 Germany, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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n8n

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

n8n is a secure, AI-native workflow automation platform designed for technical teams. It provides limitless integrations and advanced AI features, allowing users to build autonomous, multi-step agents and workflows. With capabilities for IT, security, and sales operations, n8n can save significant time per workflow run and enrich various business processes using AI. It is available for self-hosting or on the cloud and is popular among developers for its open-source model and the ability to code in JavaScript or Python. n8n is enterprise-ready, offering advanced on-prem or cloud automation solutions, and maintaining mission-critical automations.

📋 Description

• Design and evolve frontend platform foundations powering n8n’s workflow-building experience • Own and evolve core frontend platform primitives for a scalable, extensible, and maintainable workflow builder • Strengthen plugin systems, extension points, and frontend developer experience • Modularize the large frontend codebase so product teams can build on shared foundations • Architect the canvas-based workflow-building experience • Build and improve real-time collaboration using WebSockets, CRDTs, or multiplayer synchronization patterns • Design correct, accessible, and user-friendly systems for complex interactive workflows • Improve rendering performance, runtime behavior, and responsiveness • Measure, profile, and optimize frontend bottlenecks • Contribute to web worker orchestration and frontend infrastructure • Drive technical decisions through proposals, RFCs, and engineering discussions • Collaborate with product engineering, QA, DX, Security, Staff Architects, and the open-source community • Support peers through code reviews, pairing, mentoring, and knowledge sharing

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building architecture-heavy frontend products such as canvas-based tools, real-time applications, collaborative editors, or similarly complex interfaces • Ability to measure, debug, and improve runtime performance in large frontend applications • Strong TypeScript frontend experience • Experience working in a large, evolving codebase • Ownership of meaningful frontend systems, migrations, or complex re-architectures • Systems-thinking approach covering trade-offs, correctness, platform contracts, maintainability, and scalability • Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration • Interest in refactoring, modularization, technical-debt reduction, and improving existing systems • Nice to have: CRDTs, multiplayer systems, collaborative editors, or real-time communication layers • Nice to have: plugin systems, extension architectures, micro-frontends, or web worker orchestration • Nice to have: Vue experience • Nice to have: open-source contribution or maintenance experience • Nice to have: workflow engines, developer tools, infrastructure-adjacent SaaS, or technical products experience • Nice to have: large-scale SaaS exposure • Nice to have: experience across cloud, single-tenant, or self-hosted environments • Nice to have: instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and observability experience • Must have existing right to work for countries other than Germany; n8n can sponsor visas to Germany • Company language is English

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Equity ownership in n8n • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are • Europe: benefits according to local country norms • Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms • €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching • Regular hackathons • Remote-first work across Europe • Regular off-sites for team bonding • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Unlimited AI budget • US-specific: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays • US-specific: multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, dental and vision coverage, and a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA • US-specific: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match • US-specific: company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance