Frontend Engineer UI/UX

ZITADEL is a cutting-edge, open-source identity management platform, and as a Frontend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience for our customers. Your expertise and passion for UX will be essential in creating intuitive, secure, and performant web applications. You will collaborate closely with frontend engineers, the backend team, our community, and product management, utilizing a data-driven approach to optimize the user experience and bring our vision to life.

You Will

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Main Tasks
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• Implement new features and improve existing ones in our Angular-based management console and NextJS-based login UI, marketing page, and customer portal
• Employ your UX expertise and data-driven insights to design and develop user-friendly interfaces that meet the needs of our customers
• Develop and integrate frontend components to deliver a seamless onboarding experience for our customers, ensuring successful conversion and platform adoption.

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Additional Tasks
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• Gather and analyze user data to identify pain points and areas for improvement in the user experience
• Optimize frontend code for performance, responsiveness, and accessibility
• Integrate frontend components with our gRPC and REST APIs
• Develop comprehensive tests to ensure the stability and reliability of our frontend applications
• Actively review code changes from other team members to maintain code quality
• Provide timely support and troubleshoot issues reported by users
• Actively contributing to the ZITADEL open-source community by sharing knowledge and expertise
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system uptime and resolve critical incidents

You Have

• Proficiency in a modern JavaScript/Typescript framework like React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Willingness to learn Angular if not already familiar with it
• Demonstrated experience or a strong passion for UX design
• Ability to gather and analyze user data to inform design decisions
• Solid understanding of frontend development concepts and best practices
• Familiarity with gRPC or REST APIs for seamless integration with backend services
• Awareness of security vulnerabilities in web applications and best practices to mitigate them
• Excellent communication skills in English for effective collaboration with team members
• Work experience in startups; any additional experience in larger companies is a plus
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with Identity and Access Management concepts is a plus
• Passion for cyber security or identity management
• Communicate in public over Github and Chat
• Passion for contributing to open-source projects and willingness to share knowledge
• Ability to derive and align outcomes from company goals and objectives

For this role, you must be located in EMEA timezones.

Our stack

We don't expect you to have experience with all technologies right from the start. We are an open source company, so you should be comfortable with open development and processes.

Technologies

• Angular
• React
• NextJS
• SCSS
• Golang
• Gohtml
• gRPC

Methodologies

• Version Control (Git)
• Code Reviews
• Unit tests
• Integration Tests
• Agile work

Our Benefits

• Flexible hours
• 100% remote work
• Flexible time off
• Generous allowance for home office
• Regular in-person off-site social events with the team

The annual anticipated compensation range for candidates for this role is $70,000 - $120,000. Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on different factors, such as qualifications, location, experience, or competencies. Compensation is one component of ZITADEL's total reward package, which can include stock options, commissions, health insurance, funds towards home office and professional development, and more. In order to provide greater transparency all salaries are accessible to all employees.