Frontend Engineer

Company Name
Interlay
Company Website
www.interlay.io
Contact email
priscilla@interlay.io
Date
May 11, 2022
Workspace
Remote
Location
Fully remote
Type
Full time

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer that can help us improve our Interlay and Kintsugi cross-chain networks. You will enable us to ship new features to our community, improve the usability of our dapp (https://kintsugi.interlay.io/), and contribute to our open-source React UI (https://github.com/interlay/interbtc-ui/).

You are our perfect candidate if you have a strong track record of implementing UI components and business logic in a front-end library such as React, Vue, Next.js and have experience with GraphQL. You enjoy using TypeScript, are a passionate software engineer that cares deeply about shipping the product and writing maintainable code with tests as well as a great communicator that values teamwork in an agile and remote environment.

You are ideally passionate about DeFi and crypto-currencies and have the drive to solve novel issues.

What you will do

  • Implement UI components for our Interlay/Kintsugi bridge as well as the crowdloan projects

  • Implement new business logic for our Interlay/Kintsugi bridge in our React-based front-end application (https://github.com/interlay/interbtc-ui/)

  • Support the prioritization and coordinating of new features together with our front-end engineers, designer, and product manager

  • Review pull requests of other team members and give constructive feedback to refactor/improve our current implementation

Requirements

  • Proven 5+ years experience in implementing and maintaining front-end projects (React, Vue, Next.js, ..) projects ideally in TypeScript

  • Proven 5+ years experience implementing and maintaining front-end components using HTML and CSS

  • A strong desire to iterate fast and ship the product to the community as often as possible

  • Thorough application of testing best practices

  • Basic understanding of continuous integration and delivery as well as UI monitoring

  • Enjoy working in agile teams by applying outstanding communication and planning skills

Nice to have

  • You have implemented GraphQL queries before

  • You are a DeFi/cryptocurrency user

  • You have experience in testing automation and devops tools such as Docker, Datadog, ...

  • Prior work with libraries we use including polkadot.js and/or ethers.js and willingness to ready third-party code used in the front-end

About us

We are an early-stage blockchain startup, envisioning a future anyone can use any digital asset on any blockchain, trustless and without limitations. Our flagship product is interBTC - a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset, collateralized, interoperable, and censorship-resistant. interBTC enables everyone to invest, earn and pay with BTC on any blockchain, realizing the true free nature of Bitcoin and decentralized finance.

We are a team of 20 (and growing), distributed globally across Europe (primary time zone), North America, and Asia.

We live decentralization and transparency. We’re 100% remote, all our code is open source, our products are community-owned and backed by top-tier research. We are dedicated contributors to advancing Bitcoin & blockchain tech since 2015 and believe in the potential of a community-owned financial system, through hype and FUD.

Benefits

  • Research-oriented team

  • Solve novel problems

  • Stock options

  • Remote working

  • 30-day vacation

  • Allowance for a co-working space

  • Yearly retreat


The salary range for this role is £80-120k