Staff Frontend Engineer

Staff Frontend Engineer - Global Trade Comment Network

Location: New York City (Hybrid)

Compensation: $180K - $250K

We are building the global trade comment network , a protocol designed to solve the core problem of discovery in trading: what to buy and why. Our solution allows users to comment on their trades and see the trade comments of others, turning trading into a high-frequency social activity. We are backed by world-class investors and are seeking a highly experienced Staff Frontend Engineer to build and scale our mobile and web applications.

This is a high-impact role requiring deep experience in building and scaling complex mobile and web applications that power high-frequency social interactions. You will own the responsibility for ensuring a smooth UX and sub-second rendering across feeds of thousands of items, tackling meat-and-potatoes software engineering challenges to deliver a reliable and engaging product across devices.

Key Responsibilities & Projects:

• Code Excellence: Build clean, maintainable, and well-tested frontend code, focusing on code quality and long-term sustainability.
• Collaboration: Collaborate directly with product and design teams to define, prioritize, and rapidly ship features.
• Component Design: Design performant, responsive, and reusable UI components optimized for both mobile (iOS/Android) and web.
• Performance Optimization: Focus on profiling and optimizing rendering, state management, and network interactions to ensure speed across complex features.
• Feature Ownership: Projects you may work on include:
• Developing the Feed : a fast, infinite-scroll feed of trades and comments.
• Building Trading Metrics : charts and dashboards for rendering on-chain data.
• Creating the Trade Comments feature: a threaded, interactive social layer for crypto trades.
• Architecting Notifications : cross-platform push and in-app notifications with deep linking.
• Designing Explore layouts: surfacing trending tokens, traders, and strategies.

• Experience: 5+ years at tech startups with consumer applications that reach millions of Daily Active Users (DAUs).
• Core Technologies: Deep expertise with modern frontend technologies including React Native, React, and TypeScript .
• Performance: Extensive experience profiling and optimizing rendering, state management, and network interactions in high-frequency applications.
• Architecture: Experience designing and maintaining component libraries and design systems .
• Systems: Strong understanding of cross-platform build systems, releases, and CI/CD .
• Mindset: Strong appetite to work on complex, high-performance products with autonomy and creative freedom.

• Compensation: Competitive pay ($180K - $250K ) and generous equity commensurate with experience and seniority.
• Health: Full medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexibility: Flexible time off policy.
• Impact: Work on a protocol positioned to capture a large and growing Total Addressable Market (TAM) as CEXs, fintechs, and wallets adopt DEX trading, revolutionizing trading discovery.
• Innovation: Direct involvement in building a high-performance social layer for new trading formats like prediction markets and tokenized stocks.

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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