Temporal is revolutionizing how organizations manage distributed systems at scale through our innovative platform. Our UI team builds intuitive, powerful interfaces that make complex distributed systems understandable and usable across both our open-source offering and Temporal Cloud.
We’re seeking a Senior Front-end Engineer (also open to mid-level) to join our UI team and play a key role in building and evolving the user experience for Temporal’s products. In this role, you’ll take ownership of complex frontend features across our enterprise SaaS platform and open-source projects, delivering performant, scalable, and thoughtfully designed interfaces that handle real-time, high-volume system data.
You’ll partner closely with designers, Cloud/SDK/Server engineers, and product leaders to translate complex system behavior into clear, intuitive user experiences, while maintaining high standards for code quality, performance, and accessibility.
What You’ll Do- Design, build, and maintain high-performance, interactive UIs using Svelte, TypeScript, Tailwind and modern development and build tools
- Own and deliver critical frontend features across:
- Temporal Open Source
- Temporal Cloud
- Developer-facing products
- Internal tools and marketing surfaces
- Focus on reliability and scalability of UI features that grow with the platform
- Build intuitive data visualization experiences that help users understand, explore, and debug complex distributed systems
- Take ownership of frontend components and features from concept through production, including iteration and refinement
- Collaborate closely with a seven-person frontend team to deliver both revenue-driving initiatives and long-term platform investments
- Contribute to extensible, customizable UI architectures that support a wide range of customer use cases
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and design reviews to raise the overall quality of the frontend codebase
- Help guide frontend best practices around performance, maintainability, and accessibility
- Building fast, responsive UIs capable of rendering and interacting with large volumes of real-time data
- Designing sophisticated data visualization and exploration tools that allow users to drill deeply into system behavior
- Creating extensible client-side architectures that support customization and extensibility without sacrificing performance or clarity
- Balancing feature richness with simplicity and performance in complex enterprise applications for distributed systems
- Ensuring frontend systems remain maintainable and scalable as the product and team grow
- Strong experience building modern web applications using TypeScript and component-based frameworks
- Experience with, or strong interest in learning, Svelte
- Proven ability to build performant, scalable frontend systems
- Solid understanding of UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and responsive design
- Experience working with real-time data, dashboards, or interactive visualizations
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Comfort owning features end-to-end and collaborating across product, design, and backend teams
- Experience working effectively in a distributed or remote-friendly team environment
- Work on both open-source and enterprise-grade SaaS products
- Help shape the frontend experience for a platform used to power mission-critical distributed systems
- Solve complex technical problems at meaningful scale
- Collaborate with a highly skilled, thoughtful engineering team
- Make a tangible impact on a growing product and company
We’re building a platform that tackles some of the hardest problems in distributed systems — and we believe the user experience should be just as powerful as the underlying technology. If you’re excited about building elegant frontend solutions for complex systems and want to have real ownership and impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Compensation- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 CAD - $230,000 CAD.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Top Skills
What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair.
More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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