Senior Front End Engineer

About us

• Openhedge is a Venture Studio working on web3 financial infrastructure


• We partner with the most ambitious protocols in the space, and support them hands on, build together with them


• Openhedge is mainly focused on market microstructure research, design and implementation


• Our specialty is in designing new market mechanisms that are only possible on distributed open ledgers


• One of our most notable public projects is Premia Finance and more upcoming

About the role

• You will be working alongside the Openhedge team on one of our incubated projects


• We will expect you to lead overall Front End development of the project


• We will expect you to work closely with other departments such as Design, QA, Operations, and Marketing to successfully execute the implementation, testing and deployment of new features


• You will design, scope and estimate complex features at the component level


• You will identify and advocate for team-wide areas of improvement and best practices


• You will be expected to mentor other team members to refine their technical and architectural skills

What we expect

• Team Management (task assignment, organization, communication, leading sprints/stand-ups, etc.)


• Strong React.js


• You have lead a team previously, no matter how small or large


• You have more than 5 years of experience in shipping great products


• You have shipped some web3 products previously


• Experience working with GraphQL


• You are able to build modern, event-driven React front ends, converting Figma designs into functional components


• Mastery of CSS, preferably via a library like MaterialUI


• Experience with version control, such as Git


• Nice to have: previous experience with web3.js or ethers.js libraries

What we offer at Openhedge

• Above market pay


• Fully flexible working hours


• Highly motivated co-builders


• Heavy focus on mental and physical wellbeing


• Distributed, asynchronous environment


• Unlimited vacation days


• 4*+ travel, business class flights for 4 hours or more


• Opportunity to work on the coolest and most complex problems


• Engineering DNA (no delineation between engineering and business)


• Totally flat org

Compensation

• $100-250k base + generous incentives