Frontend Engineer (100 Remote)

The Basics

We are looking for aFrontend Engineer (m/f/d)to play a leading role in the development of our front end (based on Backstagewritten 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
  
  Our Stack
  

• Frontend: TypeScript React TanStack Query Webpack Jest Backstage UI Storybook Sentry

• Backend: Backstage () Kubernetes API Server

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 (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.
  
  Nice to Have

• 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)

Salary Information

Were a fully remote company and use a formula-based salary calculator to determine starting salaries factoring in location experience and responsibility. This approach helps us avoid pay gaps (e.g. gender pay gap) by basing compensation on objective criteria rather than negotiation. Because we apply a location factor the actual figure for hires outside Cologne will differ from the reference range above and the total package may include components beyond base salary (e.g. equity benefits). Were publishing this range to comply with the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Your recruiter will walk you through how the calculator applies to your location and level.

Salary Range: 50000 - 80000

About us

Every new team member changes the team. We love to learn from each other and we are looking for people who know things we dont.

• Becoming part of Giant Swarm means that by extension you also become part of the Cloud Native community. We actively contribute to upstream projects and our quarterly hackathons will give you space to work on out-of-the-box projects. Occasionally when we as a team want to fully focus on one project we scratch all meetings and routines for a certain time to better focus during our hive-sprints.

• Continuous learning is important to us - we foster this through bi-yearly personal development talks a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshops. Our teams are cross- functional and collaboration is key.

• Nothing crazy but useful Basics: We currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek you decide!). We dont count holidays but set a minimum number; You choose your own hard- and software; As a company that has almost if not more kids than employees 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

• A note on the use of AI in our hiring process: real people read every application no AI screening no automated filters. We build tools we use tools we get excited about tools. We also know better than most that the best ones change whats possible. What were looking for is how you really think what youve built and how you see the world. Using AI is fine - just dont miss the chance to let us get to know you. After all humans are way more fun to meet at our onsites!

We failed in exactly describing our way to approach important company elements that can be described with buzzwords such as agile mindset cross-functional teams self-organization value of the individual or trust & teamwork. However we truly care about them we live them and we constantly iterate on them. Some snippets about how we do this are posted in ourblogbut by far not all of them.

Important note: We are not hiring job descriptions. We hire humans. :) We welcome applications from everybody regardless ethnic or national origin religion gender identity sexual orientation or age. When you apply for a role at Giant Swarm we will also consider you for other relevant roles or ones that may come up in future if this one isnt a good fit at this time.

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Monthly Salary Salary: 50000 - 80000