Frontend Developer - Remote

Overview

HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform. Designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress, the HiveMQ MQTT platform is the proven enterprise standard and powers use cases in automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, transportation, and more. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and ZF choose HiveMQ to build smarter IoT projects, modernize factories, and create better customer experiences.

HiveMQ is a remote-first company headquartered in Landshut, Germany, with a US office. The last time we counted, we spoke 32 languages within our diverse team at HiveMQ. We are looking for innovative, motivated, and passionate individuals to join our rapidly growing company.

In Short

• Work with the HiveMQ Product Development team around the broker to deliver outstanding technology and services to our customers
• Architect, implement, optimize and maintain our HiveMQ Broker 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 backend network requests, speed up rendering and processing 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)

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)
• 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
• A systematic but pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and taking pride in the work you accomplish as a team
• A good understanding how agile product engineering using Kanban in a self-organized team works
• Excellent communication skills and an outstanding work ethic

Benefits

• Join a diverse team that speaks 32 languages
• Work in a remote-first environment
• Be part of a rapidly growing company
• Contribute to innovative IoT projects
• Engage in a culture of teamwork and excellence