[Hiring] Software Engineer @Kaleidos

Role Description

At Penpot, you'll take part in a range of projects and features across the product, with a strong focus on solving real problems identified by our users:

• Improving their experience through new features
• Tackling pain points and bugs
• Delivering quick wins with a direct impact on their day-to-day work

You'll be able to move across different parts of the product, so you'll quickly get up to speed with the context behind each problem and propose solutions that work for Penpot users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Interest in or experience with reactive programming (at Penpot we use RxJS)
• A background as a frontend developer (backend-for-frontend), with solid command of JavaScript, browser APIs, HTML and CSS, and experience with JS frameworks (we mainly use React)
• Motivation to build robust, carefully crafted user interfaces
• Knowledge of, and hands-on experience with, functional programming
• Regular use of LLMs (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, OpenCode...) as part of how you work
• Comfortable working in Linux environments
• Languages: a high level of spoken and written English; functional level of Spanish

Requirements

• Experience in the following areas:
• Interest in solving user problems with new languages and frameworks
• Interest / knowledge in accessibility and responsible development
• Interest / knowledge in design systems and their integration with product development
• Previous experience or genuine interest in open-source projects
• Use of agile methodologies in a professional environment
• Background of collaboration in diverse teams (design, marketing, backend...)
• Ability to ask the right questions to help product development
• Care for testing your own code responsibly (unit, integration, and end-to-end tests)

Benefits

• Salary: €60 - 67k (gross annual salary)
• Permanent contract
• Flexible hours
• 37.5h/week as part of our plan for creating a better work-life balance
• 100% remote position
• 23 days of paid leave, plus December 24th and 31st
• Choose the holiday calendar of where you live or from the headquarters (Madrid)
• Continuous learning with internal and external training, conferences, and events
• Language classes on the house (eng & span)
• 2 PIWEEKs per year!
• Elevate your workspace
• An environment where your opinion matters
• An open-source company
• Self-organized teams
• Alan’s health insurance through flexible compensation (coverage only in Spain)

Company Description

Kaleidos is the company behind Penpot, the first open-source design platform built for design and code teams to work together at the same scale. We're a horizontal organisation, with no traditional hierarchy, and our values are rooted in open-source principles, alongside honesty, feminism, work-life balance, transparency, generosity and joy in what we do.

At Kaleidos, we have a genuine commitment to diversity in all its forms. Our team is made up of more than 50% women, and we'd love to welcome new colleagues who share our values.