Senior Front End Engineer

100% Remote (within +/- 2hrs of Berlin CET)

The role

We’re looking for an exceptional Front End Engineer to help us build and scale our product. You’ll have the perfect blend of technical skills, a passion for problem-solving and mentorship of others, and the ability to drive scalable systems within an agile startup environment.

As a small team we are constantly picking up new challenges. We’re looking for people who can pick a problem and solve it, without waiting for a ticket to arrive. This is a truly exciting opportunity for someone to build the Engineering foundations of a successful early-stage startup. Every feature that is being ideated will go through you, and you’ll get first-hand exposure to what it means to build and scale a remote software startup.

About Secfix

Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs in Europe. We help SMBs automate ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, and SOC 2 fast and easy. Our platform integrates with a company’s tech stack (like AWS, Azure AD, Jira, etc.), automatically extracts the data needed for compliance, and creates a checklist to become and remain compliant.

 

About Our Team

We’re a fun, close-knit team on a mission to automate security and compliance for modern companies and become the European compliance automation leader. Our trajectory is fueled by top investors, including Octopus Ventures, Neosfer (Commerzbank), founders of Signavio and many more angels.

We are a team of 18 (and growing!) with founders passionate about Y Combinator product principles and building a great remote culture. We are solving a real need with a huge $97bn market and the future is very bright.

 

About you

• You’re a technical expert, with strong JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS fundamentals and extensive hands-on experience with Angular. You have experience designing and building scalable front-end architecture.
• You have a proven track record of leading on front-end projects and you’re moving your career in this direction, using your strong interpersonal skills and natural empathy to foster a collaborative, outcome-oriented engineering culture. You will collaborate with the CTO, CEO, CSMs, Sales, and Design daily.
• You have an owner mindset, iterating and taking pride in owning customer-facing features from ideas to going live fast. You strive for great visuals and usability. You’ll always go the extra mile for customers and your teammates, coordinating across functions to cut through the noise and deliver the right solution to the right problem, without getting lost in the details. You are obsessive about the design and have high standards.
• You thrive in the startup world, having gained experience in this fast paced, agile environment, ideally as an early engineer in a startup. You’ll recognise the need for flexibility and a hands-on approach. You don’t wait for a product manager to create a ticket, you pick it up yourself, fix it, test it, and then mentor others to do it better.
• You’re passionate about sharing knowledge and championing new technologies.

 

Role responsibilities

• You’ll be a go-to person for all things ‘Front End,’ taking ownership and collaborating with the CTO to set technical direction. Working closely with product and design teams, you’ll shape and design features for both new and existing products.
• Your main responsibilities will include designing, developing, and maintaining user-facing features using Angular and TypeScript, with a focus on creating visually stunning and scalable UI components. Additionally, you’ll improve the frontend architecture, prioritising pragmatic solutions suited to our current development stage.
• You’ll assist in spearheading hiring – working with our Head of People to scale a first-class engineering team. You’ll help to develop the existing team, providing mentorship, and enabling a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. You’ll ensure clean code through extensive code reviews. You’ll establish and promote Secfix engineering culture.
• At all times you’ll live by and champion, our values:
  – We are obsessed with our customers.
  – We build smart.
  – We create trust.
  – We are hacky.
  – We take ownership.
  – We are leaders of remote.

 

Our tech stack

• Frontend: Angular, TypeScript, Ngrx
• Design Systems: Tailwind, Material Angular components
• Backend: Java Springboot, Postgresql, Hibernate, Golang
• Infrastructure: AWS with ECS
• Tools: Gitlab CI/CD, Figma, Slack, Notion, Gather.town, Clickup

 

What We Offer

• Remote Work: 100% remote work with a virtual office in Gather.
• Competitive Salary: Industry-competitive local salaries.We pay local rates that are at or above the market. We share this philosophy with GitLab.
• Equity: Generous equity package – we’re all owners of Secfix and beneficiaries of our collective success.
• Holidays: 26 days holiday + local public holidays.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage.
• Development Budget: €1,000 annual personal development budget.
• Workspace Budget: Remote workspace budget and access to co-working spaces.
• Annual Retreat: Annual retreat to build connections and inspire ideas (this year we’re headed to Milan!).
• Tech Equipment: Latest tech equipment (MacBook, monitors, headphones).
• Company Events: Company-wide events to build relationships and have some fun!
• Mentorship: We are backed by top VCs and accelerators and have direct access to world-class mentors.

 

Interview Process

1. 20-30 min intro call with Talent team
2. Take-home Task and technical presentation
3. 2h final “Virtual on-site” where you’ll meet the team and co-founders on Gather

Sometimes we might split one larger interview into small separate calls, to offer you faster availability.

Please note: We are an equal-opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can support hiring only within EU time zones. We work in sync using Gather as our virtual office. As a small fast-growing company, we believe in the need for an in-sync component of daily communication and therefore cannot support 100% asynchronous work. Read more about our Remote Culture here.