Frontend Engineer

OpenHome Foundation

Job Overview

Location

Europe - Anywhere

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain frontend components for multiple open-source smart home projects under the Open Home Foundation ecosystem, including ESPHome, Music Assistant, Device Database, and integrations with Zigbee2MQTT and WLED.
• Implement and optimize progressive web applications (PWAs) that deliver high performance, offline functionality, and seamless user experiences across devices and networks.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams to translate community feedback and product specifications into clean, scalable frontend features.
• Conduct thorough code reviews of pull requests from teammates and community contributors, ensuring adherence to coding standards, performance benchmarks, and maintainability goals.
• Actively engage with the open-source community by triaging user-reported issues, clarifying bug reports, and creating well-documented, beginner-friendly tasks for contributors.
• Participate in shaping the long-term frontend architecture by evaluating frameworks, libraries, and tooling to improve scalability, accessibility, and developer experience.
• Maintain and extend custom UI components for Home Assistant, including cards and panels that integrate with underlying protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Matter.
• Apply web accessibility standards (WCAG) to ensure all interfaces are usable by people with diverse abilities and assistive technologies.
• Utilize modern frontend frameworks such as Lit, React, Vue, or Angular to build responsive, interactive, and modular user interfaces.
• Contribute to the evolution of the organization’s frontend tooling stack, including testing frameworks like Vitest, Jest, or Cypress, to enforce code quality and reduce regressions.
• Work within a fully remote, asynchronous environment with a requirement for at least three hours of daily overlap with team members across Europe.
• Maintain a high standard of written and verbal communication in English to ensure clarity in collaboration, documentation, and community interactions.
• Balance rapid iteration with long-term code health, prioritizing maintainability and extensibility in all frontend developments.
• Contribute to data visualization components where required, applying best practices for clarity, accuracy, and performance in presenting complex smart home metrics.
• Support the organization’s mission by championing privacy, choice, and sustainability through open-source frontend development.
• If currently engaged in Home Assistant-related side projects, allocate work time to maintain and improve those projects as part of your role.
• Contribute to documentation, component libraries, and design system alignment to standardize UI patterns across the ecosystem.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional TypeScript development experience
• Experience developing and optimizing progressive web applications (PWAs)
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks and libraries (e.g., Lit, React, Angular, Vue)
• Extensive proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows (pull requests, reviews, merging)
• Professional fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• European residency and eligibility to work within Europe

🏖️ Benefits

• Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave if not mandated by local law
• Budget for work hardware upon starting; equipment becomes personal after three years
• 50% contribution to home internet connection fee
• Opportunity to spend work time maintaining Home Assistant-related side projects
• Total compensation package targeted at the 75th percentile for local market rates (e.g., 62,000 EUR in Netherlands, 55,000 GBP in UK, 51,000 EUR in Spain/Portugal)

Skills & Technologies

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Vue.js

Frontend

Remote

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About OpenHome Foundation

OpenHome Foundation is a non-profit organization that stewards the OpenHome open-source voice assistant and smart-home ecosystem. It provides reference hardware designs, software frameworks, privacy-respecting cloud services, and governance policies so that individuals and companies can build interoperable, local-first smart-home devices without vendor lock-in. The foundation hosts the codebase, coordinates contributions, certifies compatible products, and advocates for user privacy and open standards in connected homes.

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