Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Role Description

Your main goal will be to 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Future planning –
  • 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.
• 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.