Staff Software Engineer
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
These are examples of what you will work on improving
- Scalability: Enabling high throughput use-cases
- Memory efficiency
- Reliability of the platform (executes workflows correctly, consistently, and predictably even under normal or high-stress conditions)
- Fault tolerance (e.g. how well the engine recovers from unexpected problems)
Links to our Github repository
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
Some links to part of the engine
- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/master/packages/core/src/execution-engine
- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/master/packages/cli/src/execution-lifecycle
- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pull/13483/files, + 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.
- An ambitious but kind culture - People love working here-our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
Requirements
- You have deep experience with both architecting and hands on building complex event-driven platforms such as a workflow engine that have scaled to millions of users and events.
- You have experience driving and leading multi-year projects which impacted a wide part of the product.
- Because of this, you need to be an excellent communicator and project manager making sure everyone is aware of the changes and you can get people behind it.
- Willingness to work with Node.js & Typescript as this is the main language of n8n (Great if you have deep knowledge of the ecosystem, but the language should be more an implementation detail, as parts of the system could be built using something different).
n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
Our company language is English.
Benefits & conditions
- 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: 15 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 ️ -
About the company
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.