Staff UI Platform Engineer — Microfrontends Architect

Redpanda Data; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 290,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Redpanda Data is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the UI platform that powers its product surface and to lead its migration to product-based microfrontends. You will shape the shared host shell, remote contracts, and frontend standards, guiding teams across EMEA and the Americas.

You will build scalable frontend architecture, ensure accessibility, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building production-grade customer-facing web apps at scale using React and TypeScript.
• Experience owning a shared platform, framework or design system that other engineers depend on.
• Proven track record leading large technical projects end-to-end and driving adoption of architectural guidelines.
• Strong foundations in component architecture, state management, data fetching, performance, and accessibility.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development workflows and modern frontend tooling.
• Ability to define RFCs, code reviews, and frontend standards, and mentor across UX and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Redpanda UI platform end to end: host shell, remote contracts, versioning, shared dependencies, routing, auth, and runtime behavior of composition.
• Define migration path for splitting product surfaces into independently deployable microfrontends across EMEA and US time zones.
• Define graceful degradation and fallback patterns for cloud usability when remotes are missing or incompatible.
• Raise release confidence with end-to-end and certification tests across environments.
• Set frontend standards through RFCs and design/code reviews, enabling easy adoption.
• Contribute to and evolve the design system and component library to be composable across surfaces.
• Represent frontend in cross-team architecture discussions to land API decisions in the UI.
• Participate in on-call escalation and improve operational health.
• Mentor engineers across UX and product teams and raise engineering bar.

Skills

React & TS

Microfrontend architecture

Design system ownership

Architectural guidelines

Frontend performance

Accessibility

CI/CD & testing

AI-assisted workflows

Team mentoring

English communication

Tools

Module Federation

Nx

Turborepo

pnpm workspaces

Vite

Webpack

Figma tokens

Codegen

protobuf/gRPC-web

Design system tooling

Job description

Redpanda Data is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the UI platform that powers its product surface and to lead its migration to product-based microfrontends. You will shape the shared host shell, remote contracts, and frontend standards, guiding teams across EMEA and the Americas.

You will build scalable frontend architecture, ensure accessibility, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.