Staff FE Engineer

Staff Frontend Engineer

Location: New York

Compensation: $250K - $300K

We are a team of elite builders moving at the speed of the most active markets in the world. As core contributors to the largest crypto social network globally, we build products at the frontier of consumer scale and performance. Our work ships to millions of users and sets the bar for speed, polish, and reliability in the decentralized space. We are looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to define our frontend architecture and elevate our engineering standards. This is a critical leadership role for someone who still loves to build. You will shape the technical direction of high-impact user-facing systems that operate at "internet scale," ensuring our products remain the gold standard for consumer crypto experiences.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Vision: Define and drive the long-term frontend architecture, ensuring it can support millions of concurrent users.
• High-Impact Shipping: Lead the execution of complex, user-facing features from ideation through to global deployment.
• Technical Excellence: Elevate engineering standards through rigorous code reviews, documentation, and the implementation of best practices.
• Scale & Performance: Obsess over frontend performance, hydration, and rendering speeds to maintain our reputation for high-polish interfaces.
• Mentorship: Act as a technical lead, elevating the team's capabilities and fostering a culture of high-agency building.

Requirements

We are looking for a senior-level expert who can operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and mentor the team around them.

Must-Haves:

• Technical Mastery: Deep professional experience with React and Next.js, having shipped multiple high-traffic production web applications.
• Architectural Depth: A profound understanding of modern frontend architecture, including server-side rendering (SSR), hydration, and complex performance tradeoffs.
• State & Data: Mastery of advanced state management and data-fetching patterns.
• Environment: Experience operating in high-growth, high-ownership environments where speed is a competitive advantage.
• Location: Must be able to work on-site in NYC.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience within the Crypto / Web3 industry.
• Previous experience at a high-growth scale-up with a rigorous engineering culture.
• Familiarity with performance profiling, frontend observability, and analytics.
• A portfolio of work on consumer-facing products with large, active user bases.

Benefits

• High Visibility: Work on one of the most visible and widely used consumer crypto products in the world.
• Elite Talent Density: Join a lean, fast-moving team of world-class engineers where you have immediate and visible impact.
• Growth & Upside: We offer a highly competitive compensation package designed to reward elite performance.

• Competitive Base Salary.
• Significant Equity/Token upside.
• Flexible and negotiable equity opportunities.

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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