[Remote] Frontend Engineer (100% Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Giant Swarm is an open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. They are seeking a Frontend Engineer to lead the development of their front end, ensuring high standards and best practices while enhancing user experiences for managing Kubernetes clusters and applications.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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 (see above)
- 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
- You have experience with agentic software engineering, and are willing to make agentic software engineering (using tools like Claude Code) your default way of working
- You 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
- You 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
- You are thrilled about delivering a B2B product that shines through reliability, dependability, usability and accessibility
- The other team members are located in Europe (CET/CEST timezone), thus, your main timezone should be somewhere between +/- 2 hours CET to ensure good communication
- 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)
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
- Bi-yearly personal development talks
- A budget for training/certifications/coaching
- Regular feedback talks and workshops
- 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!)
- You choose your own hard- and software
- Paid parental leave
- Paid parental leave is a no-brainer
- Monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely
- Meet twice a year as an entire company
- See conferences as an important place to catch up with team members
- Fully transparent (finance, salaries)
Company Overview
- Giant Swarm is to give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://giantswarm.io.
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