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Senior Engineer I-II - Core Workflow Engine(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeRemoteSenior
AI/ML

Engineering core systems for an open workflow orchestration platform, enabling AI automation. Focus on durable execution, queue distribution, and system modularization. Strong TypeScript experience with large codebases and system design expertise required. Equity ownership, 30 days vacation for Europe.

Requirements

  • Systems thinking mindset (correctness, trade-offs, reliability)
  • System design experience; clear technical choice explanation
  • Strong TypeScript experience; comfort with large codebase
  • Collaboration, communication, cross-functional work
  • Pragmatic engineering; system improvement for scalability, maintainability
  • TypeScript/Node.js backend systems experience beyond CRUD
  • Distributed systems understanding (event-driven, idempotency, reliability)
  • Data architecture experience (data-intensive services, performance, operations)
  • Complex frontend systems experience (architecture-heavy products)
  • Performance expertise (rendering optimization, runtime improvement)
  • Strong TypeScript frontend development; Vue experience (preferred)
  • Workflow/orchestration or devtools experience
  • Open-source experience; public API contracts, backward compatibility
  • Large-scale SaaS exposure (meaningful scale/complexity)
  • Monolith to modular migrations experience
  • Familiarity with durable execution patterns (event-driven, workflow)
  • Collaboration tech (FE) experience (collaborative/real-time apps)
  • Frontend platform patterns (FE) experience (plugins, micro-frontends, web workers)
  • Multi-deployment awareness (cloud, self-hosted environments)
  • Observability mindset; care for operability

Tasks

  • Contribute to durable workflow execution and state
  • Contribute to orchestration patterns
  • Contribute to queue and task distribution
  • Contribute to system modularization
  • Apply best practices for correctness and resilience
  • Improve data architecture
  • Improve database performance
  • Improve database reliability
  • Improve database maintainability
  • Develop core canvas architecture
  • Develop frontend platform primitives
  • Build and improve real-time collaboration capabilities
  • Contribute to performance improvements
  • Contribute to rendering improvements
  • Strengthen platform contracts for plugin systems and FE DX
  • Contribute to technical decisions through proposals and discussions
  • Collaborate with teams to integrate platform changes smoothly
  • Conduct code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Vue

Benefits

Competitive Pay

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership

More Vacation Days

  • 30 days vacation (Europe)

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Local health benefits (Europe)
  • Low-premium, low-deductible medical plans (US)
  • HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA (US)
  • Dental coverage (US)
  • Vision coverage (US)

Retirement Plans

  • Local pension contributions (Europe)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match (US)

Additional Allowances

  • Local financial security benefits (Europe)
  • $100 monthly open source support budget
  • Unlimited AI budget

Other Benefits

  • Company-paid short-term disability insurance (US)
  • Company-paid long-term disability insurance (US)
  • Life insurance (US)
  • Company transparency

Learning & Development

  • €1K annual learning budget

Team Events

  • Regular hackathons
  • Regular team off-sites

Flexible Working

  • Remote-first work

Informal Culture

  • Ambitious and kind culture
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