Lead Frontend Developer (React, TypeScript)

The company is building the web3 messenger. We are looking for talented and motivated front-end engineers of all experience levels. The company engineers thrive in a high-growth, high-velocity environment where success depends on the highest levels of communication, code quality, and pragmatism. Each engineer must be able to individually own a slice of the the company codebase while also maintaining a working knowledge of others. Accordingly, the company is looking for team members who are not only highly-skilled individual contributors but also strong collaborators and communicators.

Technical Responsibilities

• Facilitate technical growth for all members of the development team

• Develop, shape, and maintain technical processes and workflows

• “Set the tone” in terms of craftsmanship standards and code quality

• Carefully implement critical UI components, shared functionality, and certain subsystems (like monitoring, testing, validation, etc)

• Rapidly implement functional UI elements from design mocks and workflow diagrams, with an eye toward correctness and readability.

• Active/thoughtful participation in discussions surrounding ticket specification, design review, etc.

• Participate in active, intentional, and thorough code reviews.

Lead Responsibilities

• Actively participate in GitHub discussions, issues, and pull requests

• Provide technical support and guidance in both GitHub and Discord

• Participate in growing the development team

Requirements

• 5+ years building production, customer-facing React applications.

• 7+ years of experience building production, customer-facing frontend applications (using React or any other frontend toolchain).

• 1 year of TypeScript experience

• Minimum 3 years working with any strongly typed programming language

• Minimum 1 year leading or 2 years contributing to a web3-centric project

• Very strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Very strong understanding of idiomatic UI implementation patterns

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript

• Strong understanding of the browser programming environment (the DOM, data-fetching APIs, storage APIs, sessions, HTTP, caching, etc).

• Working understanding of public key cryptography (encrypting, signing, etc) and associated user flows

• Desire to work in a semi-public-facing role as an OSS maintainer

The company's benefits include unlimited and encouraged time off, 100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents, 2-3x/week company lunches at local restaurants, and for remote employees: up to $2,000 USD home office setup stipend (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).