Frontend Engineer (100% remote)

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer
to play a leading role in the development of our front end (written in React) and our other front end interfaces written in Go. 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.
        
Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products.We're a distributed, diverse, and growing team spread across the whole world. The company is based in Cologne, Germany, where we have a small office in a coworking space. However, only a few people work there and visitors are always welcome (in pre-corona times :( and hopefully soon again). All workflows are created to function remotely - but of course, if you want to visit Cologne, you are more than welcome!While we are remote-first, we appreciate quality time with our co-workers, so we meet in person twice a year to work and have fun together.

• You will join us in making Kubernetes and our interfaces more understandable for our customers and end-users
• Together with our teams and our UX designer you identify and pick up frontend stories from the backlog
• 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

• Javascript, TypeScript, and CSS excellence
• Experience with React and Redux
• You value craftsmanship, are curious, willing to learn, and don’t give up easily when things are hard or complicated
• We (and our customers) are currently mainly distributed around Europe (around CET), thus, your main timezone should be somewhere between +/- 2 hours CET to ensure good communication.
• You feel responsible for everything you ship and you pride yourself on clean code, precise documentation, and a perfect product.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the terminal and bash.
• Experience with continuous integration and a git-based workflow.
• Besides TypeScript, you have programming skills in a language of choice (not necessarily ours, but knowing Go or another statically typed language is a plus) and you already had first touchpoints with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices.
• 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.

• Impact, Impact, Impact! We are a remote-first organization with a growing team from 15+ European countries. Every new team member changes the team. This is great! People who know things we don’t are highly welcome.
• “It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission” (Grace Hopper) - sure, it’s not 100% like this, but we have a strong culture of failure which, is part of our agile mindset. We don’t do things like in the guidebook. You can try things out! Our default to 100% transparency will help you here.
• We play a key role in our customers' digital transformation. We have partnered up with Amazon and Microsoft to provide our solution on their cloud platforms - more will follow.
• We have been in this ecosystem from the get-go and as part of the CNCF family, we feel at home in the community. As a part of Giant Swarm, you will also join this extended family.

Interested? Questions? Coffee? Contact Mirco (mirco@giantswarm.io) or apply directly!

WHY Giant Swarm?We like to give you a glimpse of how working with is like:
Self-organizationCreative work needs freedom and openness. We encourage you to do your work wherever and whenever you want. We expect passion and encourage sustainability. If you need rest, take it. We don't count holidays - but we are also aware that this combined with remote work can also lead to working too much. So we encourage you to take holidays and help you to manage the freedom and flexibility.
TeamworkWe are a growing company with team members distributed all over Europe and plans on expanding to the US. Our ambitious goals are only achievable as a team. Everybody’s input is highly welcome and appreciated. Although sometimes rules and processes are necessary, we try to keep them as lean as possible. Always question the status quo and find new ways of collaboration and teamwork.
LearningLearning is mandatory and fun at the same time. If you realize you want to expand your knowledge in a specific area, we support you with conferences, books etc.
BasicsWe offer fair (transparent and open) salaries with benefits like choosing your own laptop, additional perks (for example, a location-aware, fixed amount paid each month to cover costs like co-working, phone contracts or gym memberships), paid parental leave and healthcare compensation are compulsory. And you will participate in our stock options program. Currently, our team members have more children than we are employees. So family-friendliness is a must.What we offer on top

• Choose the hardware you like the most!
• Family first - we have almost more kids than employees!
• Join our team at conferences all over the globe! (When they happen again)
• Internal Hackathons - we love to challenge ourselves!
• Personal development talks at least twice a year
• 2 Off-Sites per year (check our photos on Instagram - currently also done virtually due to pandemic)!

We are not hiring job descriptions. We hire humans. :) We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of ethnic or national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or age.