Lead Design Engineer

About us

Ambush is an AI company focused on AI research & products that catalyze web3 mass adoption. We aim to build consumer products that traders & defi users love. Our team is a blend of AI researchers & software engineers, allowing us to train & finetune our own LLMs and use them to power AI products with strong technical moats.

We’re a lean & hyper-performance oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we share a strong desire to solve Web 3’s hardest problems by building novel products that are difficult to replicate.

Our team is crypto-native, & led by one of the industry’s biggest voices: Psycho.

About this role

We’re hiring a lead design engineer with a strong engineering background & a proven track record building products that achieved product market fit.

The ideal candidate is a senior / senior+ level frontend engineer with a passion for thoughtful design. This role will be weighted towards 70% frontend engineering & 30% design.

This is a code-heavy role, as you will be the primary developer working the frontend codebase of our upcoming DeFi Webapp.

Requirements:

• Minimum 4+ years work experience as a web engineer


• Minimum 2+ years work experience as a product designer


• Minimum 2+ years working in-house at a crypto company


• Web Stack: Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Next.js (React), Node.js (backend)


• CSS Stack: Tailwind, Bootstrap and similar libs


• Animations tools: Framer Motion, React Spring and similar


• Dep Management: Webpack, Yarn, npm, and similar


• Familiarity with FE related AWS services: S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, etc


• Experience working with Websockets


• Experience with relational databases, Postgres/MySQL

Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies