Senior Engineer I-II | Core Workflow Engine | Remote | Europe

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🧠 Systems thinking mindset: You think about correctness, trade-offs, and reliability — and enjoy working on foundational platform problems.
• 🏗️ System design experience: You’ve contributed to system design decisions or worked on significant components, and can explain your technical choices clearly.
• 🛠️ TypeScript depth: You have strong TypeScript experience and you’re comfortable working in a large, evolving codebase.
• 🤝 Collaboration: You communicate well, work cross-functionally, and collaborate effectively with other engineers.
• 🧹 Pragmatic engineering: You’re comfortable improving and refactoring existing systems to make them more scalable and maintainable.

For backend-focused candidates:

• 🧩 Node.js backend systems: You’ve built backend systems in TypeScript/Node.js beyond CRUD.
• 🌐 Distributed systems: You understand event-driven patterns, idempotency, and reliability in distributed environments.
• 🗄️ Data architecture: You’ve worked on data-intensive services, including performance and operational considerations.

For frontend-focused candidates:

• 🧱 Complex frontend systems: You’ve built architecture-heavy frontend products (e.g., canvas, real-time, collaborative, or similarly complex apps).
• ⚡ Performance expertise: You have experience with rendering performance optimization and can measure and improve runtime behavior.
• 🖥️ Modern frontend TypeScript: You’re strong in TypeScript frontend development; Vue experience is preferred but not required.

Nice-to-haves

• 🧰 Workflow/orchestration or devtools experience: You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS.
• 🌍 Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained OSS, and understand public API contracts and backward compatibility.
• 📈 Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale or complexity.
• 🧩 Monolith → modular migrations: You’ve contributed to decomposing monoliths or evolving systems toward modular architectures.
• 🧾 Durable execution patterns: Familiarity with event-driven or workflow execution patterns (e.g., queues, retries, sagas).
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Collaboration tech (FE): Experience with collaborative or real-time applications.
• 🧵 Frontend platform patterns (FE): Experience with plugin systems, micro-frontends, or web workers.
• ☁️ Multi-deployment awareness: Exposure to both cloud and self-hosted environments.
• 🔭 Observability mindset: You care about operability (instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety).

Benefits

• 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: 20 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 🛡️
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
  • 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!

* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.