Junior Front-End Developer (Early Career)

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 50+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

The Opportunity

As a Junior Front-End Developer on the Nascent team you will play a critical role in building and deploying front-end code to our trading platform. From designing high impact and scalable components to solving complex technical and design problems you will serve as an integral partner to our trading team. Working closely with our trading group and engineering team, you’ll have an opportunity to exercise creativity and technical skill in solving meaningful problems, empowering our trading team to thrive at the forefront of the crypto ecosystem.

This role is a unique skillset, requiring a blend of technical expertise, effective collaboration skills, and an understanding and appreciation of financial markets and blockchain technology. This is a high-impact team, designed to advance the strategies that make our team successful. The ideal candidate is early in their career, curious and eager to contribute to building the future global economic system.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and build the next phase of Nascent’s ecosystem, enabling our team to do their best work


• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing


• Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.


• Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates

About you

• You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems


• You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, valuing strong communication and collaboration


• You are curious about the future of crypto, trading and the financial world as a whole

Preferred experience

• 1-2 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS


• Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications

Bonus experience

• Experience and/or interest in learning Rust or other systems programming languages


• UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq


• Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby or project work)

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win


• Own your shit


• Explore, experiment, play


• Always be building


• Seek and speak truth

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment


• Remote and distributed working environment


• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life


• Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work


• Home Office, co-working space and wellness stipend


• Retirement plan matching contributions


• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location


• Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth


• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats