Senior Frontend Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll join a high-caliber team at the intersection of design and engineering. You will own the development of intuitive, performant, and secure web applications built on Squads Protocol.

You’ll work across product, design, and engineering to shape user experiences from ideation to production, with full ownership of feature development. If you're a multidisciplinary builder who obsesses over elegant interfaces and clean code—this is your playground.

This role is ideal for someone who wants autonomy, thrives in rapidly evolving environments and wants to make an outsized impact in a fast-moving Web3 environment.

What you will be doing

• Rapidly implement functional, responsive UI components from designs, with attention to performance and accessibility
• Lead frontend architecture and help evolve our design system
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship features from concept to launch
• Maintain and improve the application codebase with scalable, well-documented, and tested code
• Uphold high coding standards, contribute to code reviews, and mentor junior engineers

Requirements

Qualifications

Core Expertise:

• Demonstrated expertise (5+ years) in building and delivering high-performance, visually refined web applications, with a deep understanding of browser fundamentals, modern JavaScript (ES6+), and advanced TypeScript features.5
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development best practices with Clean, modular, async-safe code
• You approach product engineering with a user-first mindset, proactively shaping features and interfaces to deliver intuitive, delightful, and accessible experiences.
• Solid grasp of systems design, debugging, and application performance
• Experience working with REST APIs and backend systems, gPRC and WebSocket APIs
• Strong communication skills and comfort with ambiguity—able to propose and lead solutions proactively
• Understands extension sandboxing and least-privilege permissions

Core Skills

• TypeScript, React,
• Next.js, Server Components,
• Jōtai (or similar),
• Vanilla Extract, StoryBook, Jest (or similar)
• Web Browser API fundamentals,
• Solana Web3.js,
• Web Workers,
• Web security fundamentals (CSP, CORS, JWT, etc),
• Chrome Extension APIs 

Nice to have:

• Interest or experience in hybrid design-engineering roles
• Portfolio of UI/UX work and familiarity with Figma
• Knowledge of blockchain UX patterns and product flows
• Experience with Solana development (wallet adapters, token programs, client SDKs)

Why Squads

• Build the future of open finance. You’ll help accelerate adoption of stablecoin‑powered solutions at a time when finance is shifting to programmable, borderless rails
• Broaden your impact. Drive alignment, innovation, and results across teams and initiatives.
• Modern tools and culture. Operate with high agency in a mission‑driven team that ships relentlessly and values craftsmanship.
• Mission Focus. We don't hire people that need to be managed, we hire people that want to be led

Benefits

• We’re offering competitive and generous compensation, with meaningful equity and upside.
• Unlimited, flexible PTO
• Flexible work schedule
• Company laptop and allowance for any necessary home equipment
• Two company-paid off-sites per year

Our Values

• Kindness Matters. We show kindness and respect to all users, customers, and team members in every interaction (internal and external). Being kind compounds and strengthens our relationships.
• Craftsmanship Excellence. We deeply care about the quality of everything we create. Every contribution, regardless of size, must meet our high standards for excellence.
• Radical Transparency. We communicate openly and honestly with each other. Respectful candor is valued over comfortable silence, as we can't afford to miss insights due to fear of speaking up.
• Bias for Action. We believe action produces information. At no more than 20% completion of a project we must have a working prototype to test and iterate on.
• Speed with Purpose. We move with urgency and focus. Slow and expensive usually go together. Good, fast, and cheap outcomes are perfectly achievable through disciplined execution.
• Professional Integrity. We never speak negatively about competitors, partners, vendors, or others. Such behavior reflects insecurity and provides no value.
• Creative Problem-Solving. We value innovative thinking that challenges conventions. The best solution aligns with the task at hand, not necessarily with how things have always been done.
• Team Over Ego. We share both successes and failures collectively. No individual's ego should surpass our commitment to the product and its impact.
• Results Over Hierarchy. We do not care about titles in this company. No politics, no hierarchy. All we care about is winning together.

About Squads

Squads is a financial technology company building products and APIs for the stablecoin economy. We build on open infrastructure, global money and internet capital markets to deliver better financial services to every business, individual and developer.