Frontend Engineer

Founding team for startup run by founder with past exit and has raised $28 mm led by Founders Fund and Paradigm (Yale-backed crypto focused fund)

Requirements

You are an engineer with at least 3+ years of modern web application experience. You have worked on small teams, often managing your own process & working to strengthen team communication. You are up-to-date on open-source solutions, possibly even a community contributor. No problem is too large for the web platform, you want to engineer solutions that are performant & inline with the company's goals. The code you write directly impacts user experience, you know how to test/design patterns that put the user first.

• Extensive domain knowledge and experience working with React core APIs
• Experience working amongst small teams, advocating for frontend architecture decisions
• Mentorship experience
• High degree of fluency in JavaScript & modern web APIs
• Extensive experience with a modern web application stack using open-source libraries:
  • State management libraries such as Redux/Immer/XState
  • Type systems like Reason or Typescript
  • Modern frontend build tooling (Webpack/Parcel, Babel, NPM/Yarn)
• Experience profiling applications for performance optimizations
• Exposure to real-time data sources such as websockets or GraphQL subscriptions
• Familiarity with design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

Tech Problems

1. Building a performance-centric application using in-house websocket frameworks
2. Scientific/data-centric charting & visual representation
3. Translating & validating complex financial workflows
4. Managing an existing frontend codebase while iteratively improving it, knowing when to refactor/rewrite
5. Ensuring absolute user success, testing/manual QA validation is a must more of a 'principal engineer' than an engineering manager i.e. senior person who could roll up their sleeves and rebuild front end by themselves experience building highly performant real-time systems is a must

Benefits: -Health, dental and vision insurance -Stock options -Flexible vacation time