Growth Engineer

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve: - Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders - Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects - Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register http://app.n8n.cloud/register. We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. MISSIONS As a Senior Engineer in our Growth team, you’ll ideate, build and iterate on the product experiences that turn users into successful, long-term customers. You’ll own high-impact parts of the Cloud journey — from signup and onboarding to billing, upgrade flows, and in-product experience — using experimentation, product intuition, and data to improve activation, retention, and monetization. This is a hands-on engineering role on a high-leverage growth team, working closely with product, design, data, marketing, and engineering to accelerate n8n’s self-serve growth engine. WHAT YOU’LL DO 🚀 Ship high-impact experiments – You’ll design, build, and A/B test new features to increase conversion and retention — think upgrade flows, contextual prompts, or new pricing nudges 📈 Drive measurable business outcomes - Your work will directly contribute to n8n’s ARR, user retention, and growth KPIs. You\'ll track performance, identify areas to improve, and ship iteratively to increase activation and retention 🧠 Scale our growth systems – You’ll help build and optimize services to enable user growth at scale, like in-app messaging platforms, billing systems, and email orchestration tools 🔧 Improve and maintain growth-critical features – You’ll take ownership of flows like signup, onboarding, and the admin dashboard to ensure a smooth, performant experience for every new user PROJECTS YOU MIGHT TACKLE Personalizing onboarding based on initial interactions to get more users to first success Testing AI credit metering and the UI around it: usage limits, paywalls, and upgrade nudges Building experimentation infrastructure REQUIREMENTS 🧑‍💻 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, and Vue or React (plus HTML/CSS/UI libraries). 📈 You've owned growth metrics: product activation, retention, or revenue, on a growth or PLG team at a SaaS company 🧪 You've shipped experiments yourself, from hypothesis to ship/kill decision 🧠 Product mindedness: You can ship without a PM and make the right call most of the time. You can talk to users when you need the signal. 📊 Data fluency: You can query data yourself and make decisions from user behaviour and experiments 🧭 Comfort with ambiguity: You don't wait for perfect specs or designs. You move forward and iterate. ⚡ Speed + ownership mindset: You move fast but responsibly, understanding that experimentation and velocity are core to unlocking growth. NICE-TO-HAVE 💸 Exposure to pricing strategy, funnel optimization, or revenue KPIs 🏁 Past experience as a founder or early-stage startup engineer Interested in learning more about our engineering teams? Check out our different teams to get a better understanding of what they do: Discover Engineering at n8n https://www.notion.so/n8n/Discover-Engineering-n8n-1b65b6e0c94f80688f43d9bbc76023c3. Please check all our engineering openings and apply to the team that feels like the best fit for you. n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work. Our company language is English. You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n https://www.notion.so/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35?pvs=21 (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35). Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.