Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join HiveMQ, a remote-first company, as a Frontend Engineer in our Cloud Applications Team. You will build and design user experiences for our customer-facing Cloud Portal and other internal systems. Responsibilities include architecting, implementing, and maintaining front-end applications using React, Chakra, and TypeScript. You will collaborate with other engineers, designers, and product managers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years with TypeScript/React, and a strong understanding of web technologies and security best practices. HiveMQ offers a collaborative team environment and opportunities for professional growth within a rapidly expanding company.

Requirements

• A strong software engineering background (5+ years) and profound experience in architecting, developing and delivering modern web front-ends and applications
• At least 3 years of experience in writing front-end code with TypeScript, JavaScript, SCSS, CSS and HTML
• Profound experience with the web framework React, reactive state management systems and an understanding of core web technologies
• Solid understanding of build tools (webpack, turbopack, etc.), Unit- and Integration-Testing (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, Jest), SCM (GitHub) paired with high standards on solving problems with excellent code, peer reviews, Git, CI/CD and a high degree of automation
• Familiarity with web security best practices (e.g. OWASP, OAuth2, Cross-Domain Origin Policy, Certificates, 2-way TLS)
• The ability to solve problems independently and are driven towards execution
• A highly pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and the ability to work as a team
• A good understanding of how agile software engineering using Kanban works
• Excellent English communication skills and able to work in a collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, optimize and maintain our HiveMQ Cloud customer portal, all Cloud frontends and the underlying frameworks (React, Chakra)
• Contribute to the HiveMQ design system and component library
• Build, maintain and refactor existing code bases, extend APIs, improve client data structures and backend network requests, speed up rendering and processing and enhance the CI/CD process
• Develop new features, consider UI/UX and improve the customer journey and user flow
• Work with Product Managers to envision and create new customer value
• Live a culture of teamwork, quality, growth, drive to action and excellence
• Contribute to the overall developer experience, code quality and engineering vision of HiveMQ
• Learn everything about MQTT, distributed systems, IoT (theory, applications, best practices)

Preferred Qualifications

• Good Knowledge about UI/UX concepts, color models and web design are a plus
• Experience with A/B-Testing and working with feature-toggles is a big plus