Senior Frontend Engineer

Your mission

You’ll become a Front End Engineer of our end-to-end LLM platform deepset Cloud and work with our enterprise customers.

We are on the forefront of AI and constantly re-think how developers will build LLM applications in the future, giving you the opportunity to shape workflows and the landscape of AI platforms.

As a front-end expert, you will be an owner of all front-end-related tasks and work closely with our wider product team to help shape our product further whilst also contributing to the evolution of our design system. You will therefore be in a position to drive your area of expertise and contribute to the decision-making for the future of our awesome LLMs products.

Our mission

We are an AI startup that empowers developers to build applications that use natural language as the interface to data. Our open-source framework Haystack is used by thousands of developers to build LLM applications. Our LLM platform, deepset Cloud, enables enterprises worldwide to unlock the potential of large language models for their business cases. Come join our team and work with tech experts on real-world cases, in a fast-paced and high-impact environment, and shape the AI space together with us.

Life at deepset

At deepset you will find an environment with equal opportunities to grow, share ideas, build relationships, and succeed. We believe every employee is important and generates a direct impact on our team’s success.
We are certified by Flexa® Careers as a flexible employer, and our remote first culture is designed to provide work-life balance, autonomy, and flexibility.
Our daily meetings, the in person "re:base", and the social events allow us to work with great synergy. We would like to invite you to visit our life page to learn more about our culture.

Your impact

• Own features end-to-end, from ideation to production. Collaborate with your cross-functional Product team to build, iterate, and ship new features to shape our customer’s experience.
• Develop high-quality, scalable, reusable, and customizable components for complex web applications.
• Review pull requests (PRs) for code quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices. Perform maintenance tasks, including PR updates and system repairs as necessary.
• Mentor other engineers and help them grow in their careers.
• Occasionally take ownership of firefighting tasks, resolving urgent issues as they arise.
• Drive software engineering best practices, focus on customer oriented solutions, improve CI/CD, documentation, and more.

Your profile

• 5+ years of experience as a Front-End Engineer, preferably with smaller teams in a growth/startup environment.
• Proficient in JavaScript and have experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (our current stack: TS, React, Redux, Sass).
• Strong understanding of front-end architecture and design patterns, with an emphasis on performance optimization and debugging.
• Proficient in testing code and experienced with testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with Back-End technologies (preferably Python) is a plus.
• Familiarity with LLM/NLP is a plus.
• Previous experience building software for enterprise clients is a significant advantage.
• Proactive and results-oriented, with the ability to contribute constructively and align with team decisions.

Perks

• Remote-first or hybrid
  You can choose to work from home or any other workspace that suits you. We offer home office setup (equipment and furniture), and we would be happy to sponsor a coworking spot.
• Grow
  Personal and professional growth is important to us. We have an annual learning and development budget, and also the opportunity to speak at conferences, internal knowledge sharing, and workshops.
• Connect
  We have a virtual office, a monthly social budget to reconnect virtually or in person, online walks and talks with colleagues from other teams, and a flexible travel policy that enables you to meet colleagues in person for special occasions.
• Re.base
  We meet in person on a quarterly basis, because we believe it’s important to get to know each other. We have fruitful discussions, we hold workshops, we brainstorm together, and we have leisure activities and fun.
• You are an owner
  All employees are enrolled in the employee stock option plan and own a part of the company.
• Personal time off
  If you want to recharge and travel the world - there are 30 days of paid vacation.
• Choose your tech
  The choice is yours among our pre-selected options, and we will provide what you need.
• Pension fund and Health Insurance fitting with your main working location
  All full-time employees are eligible for the pension plan according to the legal guidelines in their location. We also offer health, dental, and vision for employees in the US, in compliance with the local market.
• Travel Insurance
  We want you to be secure during your travels. Therefore, we offer every employee additional travel insurance.
• Sports budget
  To boost your health and well-being, we offer a monthly allowance for your sports activity.
• Oliva - employee mental wellbeing benefit
  To boost your well-being, we offer a benefit that helps you to respond to pivotal moments at work and beyond.
• Dog-friendly
  Our main co-working partner Mindspace welcomes dogs, so you can also bring your best friend to the office and our HQ in Berlin also welcomes dogs
• Enhanced days off for Family Sick Leave
  We offer additional days in case your child gets sick.
• Additional days off
  We don't work on the 24th & the 31st of December.
• Flexible working hours
  You can adapt your work to your private life.

What colleagues say

“I got to see the challenge of identifying use cases for AI and building and evaluating an LLM-based application first hand in my previous role. As a result, deepset’s mission to empower teams to leverage this transformational technology deeply resonated with me.
AI is one of the biggest innovations in technology that we have seen since the Internet. Having a chance to work and learn from a company that is at the heart of the ecosystem and has been accumulating expertise in this space since 2018 was an opportunity that I had to jump on!
I am super excited to have joined this incredibly talented team!” (Eliza, Product Manager)

"Deepset enables me to work with extremely talented and like-minded people on the tech I’m passionate about. It is just outstanding to find such a well-organized and yet creativity-encouraging environment. Seeing everyone is dedicated to the bone to pushing this thrilling technology to its limits puts the cherry on top.Needless to say: I'm proud to be part of deepset!” (Thomas, Senior NLP Engineer)