Senior Frontend Engineer

HiveMQ’s Vision for this role

Work on HiveMQ’s unified AI platform to deliver a simple, intuitive, and high-quality UI/UX experience for our customers. This role collaborates closely with Frontend and Full-stack Engineers to ensure a consistent user experience across all HiveMQ products.

We use React and TypeScript and expect a high level of proficiency in both, along with some backend experience to support effective cross-team coordination.

Who are you?

The ideal candidate for this job should have most of the following:

• Strong software engineering expertise (5+ years) with extensive experience in architecting, developing and delivering modern web front-ends and applications.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience writing front-end code with TypeScript, JavaScript, SCSS, CSS and HTML.
• A solid understanding of AI-assisted development technologies.
• Profound experience with the web framework React, reactive state management systems and an understanding of core web technologies.
• Good understanding of build tools (webpack, turbopack, etc.), Unit- and Integration-Testing (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, Jest), SCM (GitHub), along with a strong focus on problem-solving, producing high-quality code, conducting peer reviews, and leveraging CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Familiarity with web security best practices (e.g. OWASP, OAuth2, Cross-Domain Origin Policy, Certificates, 2-way TLS). 
• A good understanding of how agile product engineering using Kanban in a self-organized team works.
• A systematic but pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and taking pride in the work you accomplish as a team. 
• Excellent communication skills and an outstanding work ethic. 
• 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 plus. 

You will…

• Work with the HiveMQ Product Development team on our software stack to deliver outstanding technology and services to our customers.
• Architect, implement, optimize and maintain our frontend applications from the ground up, including the underlying frameworks. 
• Build reusable UI components and set a company standard.  
• Build, maintain and refactor existing code bases, extend APIs, improve client data structures and network requests, speed up rendering and keep the application self-contained. 
• 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).