Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform that helps technical teams automate systems using code and no-code capabilities. The Senior Frontend Platform Engineer will design and evolve the frontend foundations powering n8n’s workflow-building experience, including platform architecture, canvas and real-time collaboration systems, rendering performance, and frontend infrastructure. The role also involves driving technical decisions and collaborating with product, quality, security, architecture, and open-source teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Design frontend systems with correctness, accessibility, and user experience in mind, especially for complex interactive workflows
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Equity ownership in n8n.
- US employees: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
- US employees: 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.
- US employees: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
- US employees: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
- €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
- Regular hackathons.
- Remote-first work across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
- $100 per month to support open-source projects you care about.
- Everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
- Transparency about what everyone is working on and how the company is doing.
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