Frontend Engineer (React, Remote, Europe)
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
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.