Frontend Engineer (React, Remote, Europe)
Frontend Engineer (React, Remote, Europe): help shape a high-quality UI for an infra platform with real user impact. Collaborative, autonomous, and growth-minded.
Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages your entire infrastructure lifecycle—provisioning, configuration, and governance. It integrates with all your infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow so you can deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure quickly.
By automating deployment and configuration, providing developer self-service, golden paths with guardrails, and an OPA policy engine, Spacelift empowers businesses to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control and governance over their infrastructure. Spacelift offers unrivalled support, no-nonsense pricing, and a range of deployment models to fit your specific needs.
Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3 M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.
We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about building tools. Engineers who want to contribute to every aspect of building new functionality—from discovery to delivery to release—and drive key decisions. We build highly technical products that need a good understanding of our users' problems and excellent engineering to nail the solution.
The Team
We work in product teams (8), a team lead, backend and frontend engineers, a UX/UI designer, and a product manager. To move fast and make better decisions, we work closely and pair on problems and issues. We care about each other. We believe that having Engineers leading the projects and initiatives is the best solution as our platform is very technical.
The role
As a Frontend Engineer at Spacelift, you’ll work directly on our product, your work will have a visible impact on how users experience the platform, combining complex technical requirements with performance, usability, and a high bar for UI quality.
You’ll collaborate closely in a cross-functional setup with designers, backend engineers, and product teams.
How we work:
Regular Frontend Guild and Design System Guild meetings
UI Alignment Tuesdays to keep the interface consistent across the product
Stability Tuesdays — dedicated time to reduce technical debt and improve reliability
Our stack:
React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Coding AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor)
About You:
3+ years of experience with JavaScript
2+ years of hands-on experience building front-end applications with React
Strong product mindset - you care about user impact
High level of autonomy - you can own problems end to end and make decisions
Proactive approach - you don’t wait for tasks, you identify opportunities and take action
Strong problem-solving skills
Fluent English, clear verbal and written communication
Nice-to-have:
Experience with testing tools such as Jest or Playwright
Experience working with design systems and accessibility standards
Interest in DevOps or infrastructure-related topics
Why Spacelift?
Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future
Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights
Work-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages
Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners
Hiring Process
30-minute with our Technical Recruiter
30-minute introductory video call with one of our Team Leads
Take-home exercise
Live coding interview with two engineers
45 minutes behaviour/technical interview with our Director of Engineering
Reference check
Our values
At Spacelift, we preach Customer, Ownership, Respect, and Pragmatism - these four values encompass our vision, mission, and principles. They guide and unite us as a community on the journey we've embarked on.
- Department
- Engineering
- Role
- Front End Engineer
- Locations
- Remote Europe
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Colleagues
Remote Europe
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