Senior Frontend Engineer

The role

You will own the development of intuitive, performant, and secure web applications built on Squads Protocol. You will work across product, design, and engineering to shape user experiences from ideation to production.

What you will do

• Implement functional, responsive UI components from designs
• Lead frontend architecture and help evolve the design system
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship features
• Maintain and improve the application codebase with scalable, well-documented, and tested code
• Uphold high coding standards
• Contribute to code reviews
• Mentor junior engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years expertise in building and delivering high-performance, visually refined web applications
• Deep understanding of browser fundamentals, modern JavaScript (ES6+), and advanced TypeScript features
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development best practices
• User-first mindset for shaping features and interfaces
• Solid grasp of systems design, debugging, and application performance
• Experience working with REST APIs and backend systems, gRPC and WebSocket APIs
• Strong communication skills and comfort with ambiguity
• Understands extension sandboxing and least-privilege permissions
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js, Server Components
• Jōtai (or similar)

Nice to have

• Interest or experience in hybrid design-engineering roles
• Portfolio of UI/UX work and familiarity with Figma
• Knowledge of blockchain UX patterns and product flows
• Experience with Solana development (wallet adapters, token programs, client SDKs)

Benefits

• Competitive and generous compensation, with meaningful equity and upside
• Unlimited, flexible PTO
• Flexible work schedule
• Company laptop and allowance for any necessary home equipment
• Two company-paid off-sites per year

About the company

Squads is a financial technology company building products and APIs for the stablecoin economy. They build on open infrastructure, global money and internet capital markets to deliver better financial services.