UX Engineer

Kestra Technologies

18h•Remote

About The Position

Kestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems. Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars , hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community. In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo – backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face. The Role We're looking for a UX Engineer based in Europe to own the UI/UX of Kestra's web application, from design through implementation. This role covers the full loop: you'll identify UX problems, design solutions, and ship the frontend code yourself. This is not a marketing or brand design role. You'll work on a technical application used by engineers daily: the flow editor, execution views, dashboards, admin panels, and every screen users interact with when building and operating workflows. You need to understand complex data-heavy interfaces and the constraints of building for power users who value efficiency over visual flair. This is a fully remote position. We're hiring from Europe for timezone alignment with the engineering and product teams.

Requirements

Combined design and frontend engineering skills. You can go from wireframe to production code, and you've done both professionally.
Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma or equivalent) and experience with AI prototyping tools for rapid exploration and iteration.
Proficiency in a modern frontend stack (ideally, Vue.js). You write clean, maintainable UI code, not just prototypes.
Proven experience designing and building complex web applications (not marketing sites or landing pages). You've worked on data-heavy, tool-oriented UIs where clarity and information density matter.
Ability to think in systems: you design and build reusable components, consistent patterns, and scalable layouts rather than one-off screens.
Strong written communication in English. You'll document design decisions, present proposals, and collaborate asynchronously with a distributed team.
Comfortable working autonomously with minimal design team structure. You'll be the primary design and frontend UX voice on the product.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Vue.js specifically (Kestra's frontend is built with Vue).
Experience designing and building interfaces for orchestration, CI/CD, data engineering, or infrastructure platforms.
Familiarity with building and maintaining design systems and component libraries in code.
Experience working with open-source products where the community provides direct feedback on the UI.
Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.

Responsibilities

Own UX end-to-end: identify usability issues, design solutions, and implement them directly in the frontend codebase. No handoff to another team; you ship it.
Design and build intuitive interfaces for technically complex features: workflow editors, log explorers, topology views, scheduling UIs, and role-based access controls, among others.
Use AI-powered prototyping tools to rapidly explore design directions and iterate on concepts before committing to code. We use Claude Code for both.
Improve the overall coherence and usability of the existing interface by resolving inconsistencies, accessibility gaps, and interaction pain points, both in design and in code.
Define and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and a design system that scales across the application.
Conduct user research and usability testing with Kestra's community and enterprise customers to validate design decisions with real usage data.
Collaborate closely with backend engineers and the product team to scope features, align on technical constraints, and deliver polished releases.