Frontend Engineer

About the Role

We need someone who can make DeFi accessible without dumbing it down. You’ll build the entire front-end for a brand new DeFi product on Base while our contracts are still being written. This is NOT just a frontend role - you need to understand the smart contracts deeply and potentially contribute to them.

Non-Negotiable Requirements

• Expert in React/Next.js + Web3 libraries (wagmi/viem or ethers)
• Full-stack capabilities: Can write and debug Solidity, understand contract architecture
• Deep understanding of contract interactions: multicall patterns, permit signatures, gas optimization strategies
• Can build a DEX interface from scratch in a weekend
• Portfolio showing DeFi dApps (not just NFT minting sites)
• Understand impermanent loss, slippage, and gas optimization at a mathematical level
• Can debug MetaMask issues at 2am without Stack Overflow
• Active DeFi user (show us your DeFiLlama profile)

Responsibilities

• Build our entire frontend from zero
• Debug and potentially fix smart contract integration issues independently
• Create extremely responsive, gas-efficient interfaces
• Implement complex DeFi interactions (multi-step transactions, batched operations)
• Contribute to contract interfaces and periphery contracts when needed
• Work directly with smart contract team (no PM buffer)
• Ship daily, break things, fix them faster

You’re Perfect If:

• You’ve built a DEX aggregator interface in a weekend for fun
• You can explain why certain RPC calls should never be made from the frontend
• You’ve written your own multicall wrapper because existing ones weren’t good enough
• Your browser has 20+ tabs open of different DeFi protocols for “research”
• You’ve implemented account abstraction before it was cool
• You can spot a rug pull from the frontend code alone

Open to discuss pay + equity.