Senior Frontend Engineer

Department: Product and Engineering

Location: Germany

Compensation: €58K – €120K

Employment Type: FullTime

HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. Built on the MQTT standard and a distributed edge-to-cloud architecture, HiveMQ connects and governs industrial data in real time, enabling global leaders like Audi, BMW, Eli Lilly, and Siemens to operationalize AI and drive innovation at scale.

At HiveMQ, our culture is Effortless → Empowered → Relentless. We make the complex simple, act with confidence and ownership, and never stop pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Join us to power the future of intelligent industry.

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).  

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Job advertisements of HiveMQ GmbH are always directed at female, male and various applicants, regardless of age, gender, religion, sexual identity, disability, race, ethnic origin, world view, etc. The selection of a candidate is exclusively based on qualifications. For organisational reasons, we cannot return application documents and cannot reimburse any expenses that you incur during the application process.