Lead Front-End Engineer

About Voltz

Voltz is one of the hottest and most eagerly anticipated protocols in DeFi. The team is operating in stealth mode right now. However, even without a public announcement about the protocol, DeFi teams, Traders and CeFi organisations are developing trading models in anticipation of the new primitive being launched.

Who We Are

Voltz Labs was started by Stanford and Oxford educated founders and is now supported by advisors and angels from many big-brand teams in DeFi (announcement to be made soon).

The team works seriously hard, so if that’s not what you’re up for then this role isn’t right for you. However, if you’re up for a life-changing challenge that has the potential to create one of the most important lego blocks in DeFi, then we’d love to hear from you.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a hard working, fun loving engineer who’s got high attention to detail. As a small core team, everyone you work with will be exceptional and exceptional standards will be expected from you in return.

As our Lead Frontend Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the development of interfaces and SDKs that let the users of the protocol interact with its smart contracts in a performant and seamless manner.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead our front-end engineering efforts, working closely with the rest of our engineering team, designers and growth team to ensure our interfaces and SDKs are delivered on time and of the highest quality
• Engineer functional user interfaces from Figma design wireframes with attention to speed and accessibility
• Develop high-quality SDKs for the Voltz smart contracts
• Ensure our UIs are performant and work seamlessly across devices
• Collaborate proactively with the rest of the Voltz family to transform novel ideas into game changing DeFi products

The minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years developing scalable web applications
• Deep knowledge of the structure of performant client-side React applications
• Understanding of React, React Hooks, Create React App & Redux, ES6+, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS
• Experience with Node.js and npm
• Experience with the web3 frontend stack (ethers.js/web3.js, private key management, etc.)
• Previous experience of working with software libraries and design teams
• Ability to become proficient at Web3

Qualifications that make your application stronger

• Exceptional academics
• Knowledge of TypeChain, Hardhat, Ganache
• Understanding of the broad Ethereum DeFi ecosystem

What we offer

• Salary of $100-150k depending on experience
• Ownership of 0.25-0.5%
• Unlimited holiday
• All the support you can think of to help you grow as an individual