We are looking for
The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Web Developer based in Europe to join our Marketing team. This team is responsible for connecting the Foundation's projects, such as Home Assistant and ESPHome, with the people who benefit from them most: users, contributors, and partners. By making it easier for people to discover, use, and get involved with our projects, the Open Home ecosystem can grow in a way that's aligned with our values.
You will be the second web developer to join our growing team. Our web developers are responsible for all websites belonging to the Open Home Foundation, and you will play a key role in creating and maintaining these websites openly and collaboratively, enabling members of our community to contribute content and improvements. You will also work closely with our designers, copywriters, and marketers to build and maintain new websites, microsites, landing pages, and web-apps that support our community and our marketing goals.
This role is about more than just writing code, because you’ll help define how we present ourselves to the world. You’ll build performant, privacy-conscious, accessible websites that reflect our values and support our global community. We are looking for someone who has the natural urge to experiment, be creative and push the boundaries of the modern web.
What you are going to do
Create, maintain and update websites within the Open Home Foundation portfolio.
Enable community contributions to websites by setting up workflows, improving contributor experience, and supporting pull requests from the community that align with our goals.
Develop, test, and deploy websites and landing pages for marketing campaigns, product launches, events, and other initiatives.
Collaborate with designers to implement responsive and accessible front-end interfaces.
Work closely with the marketing team to improve site performance, SEO, usability, and accessibility standards.
Collaborate with cloud engineers to manage website stack.
What you need to have
3+ years of professional experience working as a web developer.
A strong background in JavaScript based frameworks and modern web standards.
A strong understanding of Git for source control.
A strong portfolio of marketing website work.
Comfortable designing within constraints and iterating based on team feedback.
Experience working collaboratively with other developers on a single project.
Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.
It would be great if you also have
Experience using GitHub, Jekyll, Netlify, Cloudflare for website development with continuous integration workflows.
Experience with the Eleventy framework.
Experience with front-end frameworks such as Lit.
Background in immersive web experience / Web 3D projects such as ThreeJS.
Familiarity with open source culture and workflow.
A passion for tech, smart homes and automation.
Experience as a Home Assistant user.
What we offer you
The Open Home Foundation is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from all over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.
This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the workday. You will report to the Marketing Lead, who is based in the Netherlands.
Core to the establishment of the Open Home Foundation was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide all the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to make sure all our employees, regardless of country of origin, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:
Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may keep this equipment for personal use.
A monthly smart home budget to ensure you keep up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining it.
When first offering a position to a new member, the Open Home Foundation aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates. For a Marketing Web Developer in our primary operating countries, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:
Netherlands: 50.100 - 62.000 EUR
UK: 43.000 - 55.000 GBP
Spain: 40.600 - 51.000 EUR
Portugal: 39.500 - 51.000 EUR
Other countries: compensation can be discussed during the first interview.
These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.
About us
The Open Home Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.
A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-source project in number of contributors, but the Open Home Foundation also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:
Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools)
Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-Wave JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi)
Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper)
The recruitment process
Apply for the role
Our HR team will review your application with the hiring manager
Interview with HR.
Technical assessment.
Interview with the team.
Offer.
Join our team!
