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).

Why join us?At n8n, you’ll work on the foundations that everything else depends on — the execution engine and platform primitives that power a widely-used open-source automation product across cloud and self-hosted deployments. You’ll tackle greenfield-meets-evolution problems (modularizing a monolith while building new primitives), and see your impact through both product teams and the community. You’ll join a remote-first org scaling fast (Platform Engineering growing from 8 → 17+ by end of 2026), where engineers contribute to technical direction, standards, and platform evolution.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.