Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Design and evolve the frontend platform foundations that power n8n's workflow-building experience, enabling product engineers and the open-source community to ship complex, reliable, and high-performance user experiences across cloud and self-hosted deployments.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.
• Improve rendering performance, runtime behavior, and responsiveness across complex workflow-building experiences.
• Drive technical decisions through clear proposals, RFCs, and collaborative engineering discussions.
• Support peers through code reviews, pairing, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

What you'll need

• You've built architecture-heavy frontend products such as canvas-based tools, real-time applications, collaborative editors, or similarly complex interfaces.
• You can measure, debug, and improve runtime performance in large frontend applications.
• You have strong TypeScript frontend experience and are comfortable working in a large, evolving codebase.
• You've owned meaningful frontend systems, led migrations, or re-architected complex areas of a product.
• You think in trade-offs, correctness, platform contracts, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
• You communicate clearly, work cross-functionally, and enjoy enabling other engineers rather than building in isolation.

Nice to have

• You have experience with CRDTs, multiplayer systems, collaborative editors, or real-time communication layers.
• You've worked with plugin systems, extension architectures, micro-frontends, or web worker orchestration.
• You have experience with Vue or are excited to work deeply in a Vue-based frontend codebase.
• You've contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts and backward compatibility.
• You've worked on workflow engines, developer tools, infrastructure-adjacent SaaS, or other technical products.
• You've worked on systems with meaningful scale, complexity, or long-term maintainability challenges.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation.
• Ownership and equity.
• 30 days of vacation (Europe).
• Remote-first working environment.
• Visa sponsorship available for Germany.