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.