Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

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n8nWorkflow Automation
Our team works remotely across EuropeFull-TimeSenior
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Languages
English
Required Skills
TypeScriptVue.Js

Requirements

  • Extensive experience building architecture-heavy frontend products such as canvas-based tools or collaborative editors.
  • Expertise in measuring, debugging, and improving runtime performance in large-scale applications.
  • Strong TypeScript experience working within large, evolving codebases.
  • Proven experience owning, leading migrations, or re-architecting complex frontend systems.
  • Strong systems thinking mindset focusing on trade-offs, maintainability, and scalability.
  • Excellent communication skills with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and mentorship.
  • Pragmatic approach to refactoring, tech debt reduction, and modularization.
  • Experience with real-time collaboration patterns (e.g., CRDTs, multiplayer systems) is a plus.
  • Experience with Vue is highly preferred.
  • Background in open-source software, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS is desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve frontend platform foundations that power n8n’s workflow-building experience.
  • Strengthen platform contracts including plugin systems, extension points, and developer experience.
  • Modularize a large frontend codebase to support scalable product development.
  • Architect real-time collaboration capabilities using WebSockets, CRDTs, or multiplayer synchronization.
  • Optimize rendering performance, runtime behavior, and responsiveness across complex interfaces.
  • Contribute to web worker orchestration and frontend infrastructure.
  • Drive technical decisions via RFCs and collaborative engineering discussions.
  • Partner with product, QA, DX, Security, and Architecture teams.
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