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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Frontend Platform Engineer - **Company:** n8n GmbH - **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Profiling, Code Review, Collaborative Software, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Open Source Technology, TypeScript, WebSocket, WebRTC, Real Time Systems, Vue.js, Optimization Algorithms, Free and Open-Source Software, Front End Software Development, Api Management - **Published:** July 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9a7517b1837ffadb ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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., + 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. * Country-specific details are provided in your contract. ## Related Videos - [Lessons learned from building a thriving Vue.js SaaS application](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1666-lessons-learned-from-building-a-thriving-vue-js-saas-application) - [Profiling Symfony & PHP apps with Blackfire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/265-profiling-symfony-php-apps-with-blackfire) - [Transforming Education: A Journey from interactive Markdown to Remote-Labs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/941-transforming-education-a-journey-from-interactive-markdown-to-remote-labs) - [But, you're not Facebook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/378-but-you-re-not-facebook) - [Hello JARVIS - Building Voice Interfaces for Your LLMS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1641-hello-jarvis-building-voice-interfaces-for-your-llms) - [Common Mistakes in Vue.js and How to Avoid Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/958-common-mistakes-in-vue-js-and-how-to-avoid-them) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Frontend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/195-frontend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [The Best 7 Frontend Frameworks for Developers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/400-the-best-7-frontend-frameworks-for-developers-in-2025) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front)