Senior Front End Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Front End Engineer with a passion for NFTs and Web 3 to join Monax as we grow our position in the market. You will work closely with our Platform Lead engineer and play a key role in building the Aspen front end.

Monax Labs is a web3 infrastructure studio whose mission is to ensure the benefits of digital property ownership accrue to the rightful owner: you.

We are building Aspen, an NFT publishing and transactional platform, designed around the premise that all IP will be exchanged using NFT containers and rails.

Aspen’s capabilities are focused on retail and enterprise use cases. Providing amongst other features, critically important legal functionalities, which can be accessed via branded interfaces or API. Our mission is to make NFTs safe, secure and legal.

Stack Overview

Your core skills matter more than specific knowledge. Currently we use: Typescript (front end and API), Rust, Solidity, OpenZeppelin, Postgres, React, Kubernetes, Helm).

In this role you’ll use Typescript, React JS, Web3 React, Chakra UI, Recoil and React Query.

Requirements

What you will be doing:

• Play a key role in building out the Aspen frontend
• Build frontend components that interact directly with smart contracts and on chain events
• Work closely with product, designers and other engineers
• Work on high impact features of our web application, that are at the core to the end user experience
• Work in an international team consisting of software engineers, software test engineers, software architects
• Style and animate components based on Figma specifications
• Work with a large amount of ownership and autonomy
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Building robust and easy to maintain components and libraries
• Optimise for maximum performance across multitude of devices and browsers
• Contribute to improving code quality and testing

So, in summary, who do we need? Someone who has:

• Have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a front end engineer
• Have experience with Typescript
• Have experience with Javascript frameworks such as React JS
• Take responsibility, are patient, value honesty and hard work.
• Bring positive energy to the team and experience joy in sharing, teaching and seeing other team members grow
• Excellent organisational skills and a keen attention to detail
• Previous experience working in a fast-moving and evolving environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

Nice to have:

• Experience building web3 decentralised apps
• Ability to read and interpret solidity smart contracts
• Experience with a venture-funded, high-growth technology/fintech startup
• Deep experience working with NFTs in a personal or professional setting

We are very keen to see candidates from a range of backgrounds and experiences. You may not fit exactly every requirement we have. What’s more important is that you have the demonstrable skills and experience we need.

It is important that you are able to engage, and on occasion back yourself in honest and respectful discussions with colleagues. You are able to change your mind about something after consideration.

Benefits

What can we offer you?

• High level of autonomy, freedom and self direction
• Marketable experience in the blockchain and legal tech spaces
• Remote working to fit the way you live your life. Currently Monax is fully remote
• We will expect some business travel on occasion
• Join a fast moving start up at a an exciting time as we scale up
• The chance to contribute to projects at the cutting edge of blockchain technologies
• Friendly, positive and empathetic culture
• Token Allocation

About Monax

Monax Labs’ mission is to make NFT transactions safe, secure, and legal.

To build successfully in Web 3 you need a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We want applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UK based candidates should have the right to work in the UK, sponsorship is unavailable. UK wide remote available. European remote available for the right candidate.

We are a remote team and although we hire globally, there is a preference for this role to be located in the UK, US East Coast or Europe.

Salary dependent on experience - £95,000 - £130,000 GBP, with equity. UK candidates should have the right to work in the UK, sponsorship is unavailable.