Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

n8n
Berlin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Collaboration","Clear communication","Cross-functional teamwork","Mentoring","Refactoring"]

Design and evolve the frontend platform foundations behind n8n’s canvas-based workflow builder. Own core frontend platform primitives and platform contracts (plugin systems, extension points, developer experience), while improving real-time collaboration capabilities using WebSockets and CRDTs. Drive performance and rendering improvements, contribute to web worker orchestration, and partner cross-functionally to deliver scalable, accessible, high-performance user experiences across cloud and self-hosted deployments.

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Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Design and evolve the frontend platform foundations behind n8n’s canvas-based workflow builder. Own core frontend platform primitives and platform contracts (plugin systems, extension points, developer experience), while improving real-time collaboration capabilities using WebSockets and CRDTs. Drive performance and rendering improvements, contribute to web worker orchestration, and partner cross-functionally to deliver scalable, accessible, high-performance user experiences across cloud and self-hosted deployments.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and evolve core frontend platform primitives that make the workflow builder scalable, extensible, and maintainable.
  • •Strengthen platform contracts including plugin systems, extension points, and frontend developer experience.
  • •Design the canvas-based workflow building architecture and improve real-time collaboration capabilities using WebSockets and CRDT approaches.
  • •Improve rendering performance, runtime responsiveness, and web worker orchestration for complex workflow experiences.
  • •Drive technical decisions via RFCs and collaborate with product engineers, QA, DX, Security, Staff Architects, and the open-source community.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPensionEquityRemote WorkLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Built architecture-heavy frontend products such as canvas-based tools, real-time applications, or collaborative editors.
  • •Strong performance and rendering skills: measure, debug, and improve runtime performance in large frontend apps.
  • •Strong TypeScript frontend experience in a large, evolving codebase.
  • •Owned meaningful frontend systems, led migrations, or re-architected complex product areas.
  • •Systems thinking with focus on correctness, platform contracts, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
Experience:Open sourceSaaS
Skills:CollaborationClear communicationCross-functional teamworkMentoringRefactoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptWebSocketsCRDTsVueWeb workersMicro-frontends

Company Brief

n8n
n8n provides a fair‑code workflow automation and orchestration platform that lets technical teams connect apps, build complex automations and integrate AI/LLMs via a visual, node‑based interface; available self‑hosted or cloud‑hosted.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 25M to 50M
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2019
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