Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. The Senior Frontend Platform Engineer in Berlin will own and evolve the frontend platform foundations powering the workflow-building experience, enabling product engineers and the open-source community to ship complex, reliable, high-performance user experiences across cloud and self-hosted deployments.

You will drive architecture for the canvas-based workflow builder, real-time collaboration, and frontend performance.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with architecture-heavy frontend products (canvas tools, real-time apps, collaborative editors).
• Strong ability to measure and improve runtime performance in large apps.
• Advanced TypeScript frontend experience in a large codebase.
• Proven ownership of frontend systems and led migrations.

Aufgaben

• Design and evolve frontend platform primitives for scalable workflow builder.
• Own and evolve core frontend platform contracts and plugin systems.
• Modularize large frontend codebases so teams build on shared foundations.
• Work on canvas-based workflow building experience and real-time collaboration.
• Drive RFCs and architectural decisions with engineers and the open-source community.

Kenntnisse

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

TypeScript

Architectural ownership

Jobbeschreibung

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve: Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That’s the company we’ve built.

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.

As part of the team, you’ll take ownership of core frontend platform domains and help shape the architecture behind one of the most flexible automation products in the market:

• 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.

Senior Frontend Platform Engineer — N8N, Berlin Office.

REQUIREMENTS Must-haves

• 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, o…