Frontend Engineer

About Arango:

Arango delivers a unified, natively multimodel contextual data platform that powers AI agents, assistants, and applications with the unified, current, and trusted business context needed to reason, decide, and act at scale.

The Arango Contextual Data Platform connects fragmented enterprise data with LLMs, copilots, and AI agents through a simplified architecture delivered out of the box. By combining graph, vector, document, key-value, and search capabilities in a single platform, Arango eliminates the complex stacks many organizations build to operationalize enterprise AI.

About the Role:

As a Frontend Engineer (d/m/w), you will be responsible for developing the UIs of the ArangoDB open-source database and Arango Data Platform. We believe in user-centric design and aim to deliver the best user experience possible to our users. Hence, we seek someone who can code while having our user base (Developers, DB Engineers, etc.) in mind.

What You'll Do:

• Build new features for the Arango Data Platform UI, and contribute to the ArangoDB UI, used daily by developers, database engineers and AI/data teams.
• Work across a wide range of product areas, including graph visualization and data-exploration, query and developer tooling/UIs, AI-powered experiences such as agent and GraphRAG interfaces and dashboards.
• Modernize our frontend by migrating legacy code to React and Typescript.
• Partner with designers to turn Figma designs and prototypes into polished, intuitive UIs, bringing your own UX judgment to the table.
• Take growing ownership of features over time, from shaping requirements to shipping and iterating on them.
• Work closely with backend and AI/ML engineers to integrate APIs, making sure the UI reflects what the platform can do.

Must-Have Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience: developing the frontend with a strong understanding of JavaScript, React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Basic understanding of BackboneJS, jQuery.
• Good UX comprehension and understanding.
• Ability to understand API based communication with a backend to ensure reliable frontend feature development.
• Ability to dig through complex code and provide reasonable solutions.
• Understanding of prototyping tools like Figma or Adobe Experience Design is a plus.
• Good communication and articulation skills to portray your ideas and thought processes.
• Willingness to take feature/product ownership and drive the development process.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Unit testing and E2E testing experience
• Open source contribution
• Database knowledge - ArangoDB / SQL / NOSQL
• Tailwind CSS / shadcn/ui
• Agentic workflow management like claude code or codex

What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

• Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
• Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
• Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we'd love to hear from you.