Frontend Engineer (100% Remote)
About The Position
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer (m/f/d) to play a leading role in the development of our front end (based on Backstage, written in TypeScript with React). You will not only contribute maintainable code that meets best practices and high standards but also work towards enabling all of our engineers to contribute confidently towards evolving our interfaces into the most delightful way to manage Kubernetes clusters, our observability platform, applications running in clusters, and our agentic platform. Giant Swarm is an open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products. Your Job You will join us in making Kubernetes and our interfaces more understandable for our customers and end-users. Collaborate with our teams and our UX designer to architect, build and ship new user experiences for our enterprise users. You find opportunities for improvement, both user-facing and in the codebase. You will make sure that in one year our web interface is highly regarded in the Kubernetes community as the most beautiful and desired tool for managing clusters and applications. Educate your peers into good engineering practices.
Requirements
- Robust fundamental software engineering skills like e. g. problem decomposition, designing abstractions, systems thinking, testing, version control
- Experience with automation like CI/CD pipelines
- Deep previous experience covering most parts of our stack (TypeScript, Node.JS, React, TanStack Query, Webpack, Jest, Backstage UI, Storybook, Sentry, Backstage (Node.JS), Kubernetes API Server)
- Understanding of standards like OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Basic experience with running applications in Kubernetes, building Helm charts, and container images
- Intimate knowledge of the whole web stack; you understand how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they impact the performance of your application.
- Experience with agentic software engineering, and are willing to make agentic software engineering (using tools like Claude Code) your default way of working.
- Apply platform and cross-team conventions and standards to your work, to ease collaboration and automation (e. g. conventional commits) and drive alignment where needed
- Feel responsible for everything you ship and you pride yourself on clean code, precise documentation, and a perfect product.
- Good communication, project management and time management skills
- Thrilled about delivering a B2B product that shines through reliability, dependability, usability and accessibility.
- Main timezone should be somewhere between +/- 2 hours CET to ensure good communication.
Nice To Haves
- Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
- Besides JavaScript/TypeScript, you have programming skills in a language of choice (not necessarily ours, but knowing Go or another statically typed language is a plus)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our teams and our UX designer to architect, build and ship new user experiences for our enterprise users
- Find opportunities for improvement, both user-facing and in the codebase
- Make sure that in one year our web interface is highly regarded in the Kubernetes community as the most beautiful and desired tool for managing clusters and applications
- Educate your peers into good engineering practices
Benefits
- We currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!)
- We don't count holidays but set a minimum number
- You choose your own hard- and software
- Family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no-brainer
- We pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely
- We meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team members
- We aim to be fully transparent (finance, salaries) unless it hurts people and trust you, based on this to make the best decisions
- Bi-yearly personal development talks
- A budget for training/certifications/coaching
- Regular feedback talks and workshops
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
