Frontend Engineer

The cloud is broken: It's wasteful, slow, awfully expensive, and burdened with legacy tech that wasn't built for today's workloads. At Unikraft we're building a generational, truly millisecond-native, extremely scalable cloud platform that provides exponentially higher efficiency. Are you bored with your current job? Want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the cloud to the absolute limit?

Our team consists of some of the best systems, performance, and security geeks out there, and is backed by top investors with category leaders as our customers. We believe a focused team of exceptional people, moving fast with conviction, can rebuild the cloud from first principles and make extreme efficiency (eg, millions of users on a few servers) available to everyone.

What you'll do and why it's career-defining

You will be our first dedicated frontend engineer and work directly with the CPO. You will own the user-facing experiences of our platform, building the dashboard that our users use daily and crafting all of our web presence, which communicates our vision. You'll translate cutting-edge cloud infrastructure into elegant, performant interfaces that make complex technology feel simple and delightful.

What You'll Own

• Platform Dashboard & UI : Build and evolve the core Unikraft Cloud dashboard, creating intuitive interfaces for deployment, monitoring, configuration, and management of cloud infrastructure.
• Component Architecture : Design and implement a scalable, reusable component system which serves as the foundation for our entire product UI.
• Website Development : Craft our marketing website and developer documentation sites, ensuring they're polished, accessible, and compelling.
• User Experience : Create interfaces that make complex infrastructure feel approachable, balancing power-user features with intuitive workflows.
• Developer Experience : Build developer-focused features like CLI visualizations, real-time metrics dashboards, and deployment workflows that engineers love to use.
• Design System : Collaborate with designers to build and maintain a cohesive design system that scales across products and teams.
• Technical Excellence : Write clean, maintainable code and experiment with modern web technologies, animation, and visualization libraries to elevate the product experience.
  

What We're Looking For

• Frontend Mastery : Top 1% skills with forefront frameworks based in TypeScript (HTMX, LitElement, React). You write clean, maintainable code that other engineers admire.
• Product Design & Prototyping : Strong visual design sense and understanding of UI, UX and DX principles. Able to translate ideas into tangible mockups or interactive prototypes using tools like Figma. You can work independently with concepts, designs and make smart interface decisions before implementation.
• Complex Systems : Experience building dashboards or interfaces for technical products like devtools, cloud platforms, data visualization, or similar domains.
• Attention to Detail : You care about the little things—smooth animations, thoughtful micro-interactions, and polished experiences which users notice.
• “Deep Stack” Awareness : While frontend focused, you're comfortable working backend APIs, understanding backend concepts, and making informed architectural decisions which impact all the way down to the machine. We’re building tools and systems which let users “touch” hardware.
• Modern Tooling : Proficiency with contemporary frontend stack (HTMX, LitElement, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind, etc.) and comfort with testing, CI/CD, and development workflows.
• Startup DNA : Thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and balances pixel-perfect execution with pragmatic shipping.
• Technical Communication : Can collaborate effectively with infrastructure engineers and translate technical requirements into intuitive interfaces.

Why you will love this team

• World-class product : A category-defining technology that sparks genuine excitement with prospects.
• Zero bureaucracy : Founder-led, product-obsessed, and deeply technical.
• Massive impact : Our infra powers the future of FaaS/serverless, AI agents, build pipelines, observability stacks, and more.
• Build your favorite work setup : A generous equipment budget to spend on anything you need to do your best work.
• Fully Remote, Fully Flexible : Work from your favorite place, work at your favorite and most productive times.
• Retreats, Game Nights and More : Fun-focused team retreats and other events to recharge and build great relationships.
• The Standard Stuff : Competitive salary, 6 weeks vacation, development opportunities.