Lead Front End Engineer (React)

About prePO

prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone to gain synthetic exposure to any pre-IPO company or pre-token crypto project. Our mission is to democratize pre-public investing - transforming a world of financial exclusion into a world of permissionless access.

We’re a fully-remote globally-distributed team, with years of experience at blockchain startups and top tech companies, and backed by world-class investors, including numerous founders from leading crypto projects.

It’s an exciting time to work at prePO. We are quickly approaching launch of our platform, and every team member is empowered to lead projects, wear many hats, and flex their entrepreneurial spirit to make an outsized impact within the organisation. Working on the bleeding edge of DeFi and crypto, each day comes with new and exciting challenges to solve.

Benefits

• Have a high impact on the future of prePO as a core team member
• Lead projects, wear many different hats, and flex your entrepreneurial spirit!
• Join a talented team passionate about crypto and changing the world
• Work at the cutting edge of DeFi and crypto
• Exciting and fast-paced startup culture
• Fully-remote work with flexible hours
• Competitive compensation in crypto

Responsibilities

• Lead the frontend development of prePO, from specs to tested production code
• Work in a small, fast-paced team to rapidly develop and iterate on frontend features
• Work with a high amount of ownership and autonomy
• Write well-tested, well-documented, performant, clean, and re-usable code
• Develop responsive Web 3.0 applications across both web and mobile browsers
• Rapidly implement functional UI elements from Figma design mocks
• Connect the frontend to Ethereum-based smart contracts
• Integrate with various APIs to enhance the dapp’s functionality
• Establish standard practices and methodologies for frontend engineering in our team
• In future, onboard and manage new frontend developers that join the team

Requirements

• 3+ years professional frontend development experience
• Expert knowledge of React (client-side), TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience developing frontends for blockchain applications (using web3.js / ethers.js)
• Advanced knowledge of Git and GitHub
• Experience writing unit tests (e.g. Jest + Enzyme)
• Experience leading projects from start to finish
• A desire to keep up with modern best practices in web 2.0+3.0 development
• Deep understanding and passion for DeFi and crypto in general
• Native English fluency with strong technical communication skills (written and verbal)
• High attention to detail (you are your own QA)
• Proactive and hard-working attitude, and receptiveness to feedback

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using Figma, Node.js, IPFS, ENS, The Graph API, 0x API, Hardhat, Solidity
• Experience writing integration tests and E2E tests (e.g. Selenium)
• Experience running experiments and using frontend analytics tools
• Experience deploying and testing code on Ethereum testnets
• Understanding of UX/UI principles and interaction design
• Experience building UIs for financial applications
• Experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum, CI/CD, TDD, Pair Programming)
• Experience leading interviews for new hires
• Experience conducting user research
• Game development experience
• Experience participating in a DAO
• High degen score or proven ape record
• Founder / startup experience