Senior Frontend Engineer

About

We’re building Nomina: a platform allowing users to access the onchain economy in a single interface. We’re looking for early team members to help us bring this ambitious vision to life. We’re a team who already built a platform that processed over $70M leading to our $18M fundraise from top investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures alongside angel investors including Stani Kulechov (founder of Aave), Sandeep Nailwal (cofounder of Polygon) and more.

We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale crypto's future.

About the Role

Build and maintain SDKs and frontend applications that serve developers and end-users within the Nomina ecosystem. Your work will directly impact how users interact with and utilise our platform.

Responsibilities

• Implement pixel perfect web3 applications in Typescript and React.
• Write performant SDKs enabling developers to seamlessly build applications with Nomina.
• Build user facing dapps for the Nomina protocol (bridging, staking, ..).
• Contribute to our developer documentation and make Nomina the smoothest developer experience in crypto.
• Work with our product and engineering team to prioritise and deliver high-quality features that align with the product vision and business goals.
• Contribute to open source projects, and play a part in building out the web3 ecosystem.
• Ensure that components are functional, elegant, performant, and mobile-friendly.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a frontend engineering role, including Typescript and React
• 3+ years of experience in a web3 frontend engineering role, and significant experience with web3 libraries like ethers and viem
• Experience building SDKs, APIs, or otherwise building and maintaining a production system at scale
• Daily overlap with 9am-12pm EST

Competencies

• Customer centric orientation — actively thinks about how to improve the developer experience of building on Nomina
• Detail oriented – every pixel matters. Ensure the user experience is perfect
• Autonomous — specifically seeks to take greater ownership and responsibility and thrives in their personal growth by doing so
• Action oriented — we are looking for people who take action by default, consistently driving forward progress without asking for permission
• Highly intelligent — learns quickly and can participate in abstract intellectually engaging conversations
• Effective communicator — clearly articulates ideas and engages in debates in a productive manner that leads us to making better decisions

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience creating a component library
• Previous frontend work with cross-chain applications and an understanding of how to improve the developer experience

Benefits

Our benefits include competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, regular team off-sites around the world and unlimited PTO. In addition, you'll join a team of high-caliber people innovating at the frontier of crypto that work collaboratively to help one another accelerate their personal growth.

Values

We are a mission driven company. We believe deeply that through software engineering we can build a self-sovereign society. In our day to day, we make decisions based upon our company values and operating principles:

Company values

• Customer centricity
• Long-term orientation
• Courage

Operating principles

• High-trust & autonomy
• Kindness & respect
• Collaboration
• Humility & low-ego
• Transparency
• Data driven
• Precise communication
• Results oriented
• “Kerplunk”: clean handoffs and acknowledgement of ownership between team members

The future belongs to all of us, independent of our origins. Nomina is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender or any other status protected under federal, state or local law.

Originally posted on Himalayas