Job Description
Summary
As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the launch of OS 2.0, with a key focus on performance, polish, and innovation. You will spearhead major initiatives scaling our web platform and improving performance to cater to a global audience of NFT collectors, creators, and pro users. This role is perfect for someone who is detail-oriented, design-savvy, and passionate about creating incredibly snappy products both on web and mobile web.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and elevate the 2.0 re-architecture and rewrite initiatives to ensure robust, scalable frontend solutions.
- Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that support complex web and mobile applications.
- Proactively identify and address web performance bottlenecks.
- Implement features and user interfaces of the OpenSea web platform, ensuring high standards of quality and performance.
- Collaborate with the product and design team to shape the vision and roadmap.
- Define and execute long-term technical strategies, contributing to daily technical decisions.
- Provide technical mentorship and foster a culture of excellence within the team.
Requirements:
- Mastery in either React, Typescript or JavaScript, with a keen understanding of layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
- Proficiency in Next.js, Tailwind, GraphQL, and Web3 libraries like Wagmi/Viem.
- Demonstrated experience in optimizing front-end performance and familiarity with browser APIs.
- An eye for detail and design, with a proven track record of delivering aesthetically pleasing and polished products.
- Experience or a strong interest in blockchain technology, with a deep curiosity and enthusiasm for its potential.
- Strong customer empathy and a critical thinker regarding the impact of features on users and the community.
- Experience in large-scale, consumer-facing front-end projects and a demonstrable reputation in the open-source community, including public contributions to front-end technologies.
The base salary for this full-time position, which spans across multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $190,000 to $345,000 plus benefits & equity.
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Database Management
- Development
- React
- SQL
- TypeScript