Front-end Engineer
Blocknative
👋 It’s great to meet you. Thanks for taking the time to read about our latest job opening. Read on to learn a bit about Blocknative, get some insights into the role we are hiring for, and learn about our process.
Overview:
At Blocknative, you’ll be designing tools used by some of the top blockchain projects. We’re excited to have you join our international team to help build foundational blockchain infrastructure.
You’ll join our highly skilled engineering team and help us build world-class innovative products and services that create new capabilities in blockchain infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our CTO and Product Manager to design, build and deploy new features.
Responsibilities:
- Be a key member of the technical team architecting and building Blocknative products and working with the entire organization to further the objectives of the company
- Create responsive desktop and mobile web experiences
- Create and manage the company’s existing and new open source libraries
- Work with the engineering team to support customer technical inquiries
- Contribute to documentation and related assets to assist customers using company products
- Learn new technologies and techniques to help the company innovate in products and product development
- Work with the team to guide the company product roadmap
- Work with the team to guide the company development process
- Demonstrate and inspire a strong sense of teamwork
- Demonstrate and inspire integrity, quality, and professionalism
Preferred* Experience:
- Ethereum and/or Bitcoin — proficient with the core concepts in the space
- Javascript and Typescript
- Modern web frameworks such as Svelte, React, Vue
- Progressive web application design
- NodeJS and asynchronous programming techniques
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and build solid working relationships across the team — from individual contributors to the CEO
* We prioritize people above all else. If you think you’d add to the depth and diversity of our team but don’t fit these qualifications exactly, we want you to apply!
Fun Facts:
- We’re a bunch of data nerds 🤓
- Our CTO started his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab building real-time data streaming software
- We’ve published several reports that have been well received in the space:
- Evidence of Mempool Manipulation on Black Thursday: Hammerbots, Mempool Compression, and Spontaneous Stuck Transactions
- From Stablecoins to Crypto Dollars
- When One Billion Ethereum Transactions?
- Blocknative’s infrastructure records thousands of mempool events every second
- We’re backed by leading VCs
Hiring Process:
- Given our early stage, we strive to have you meet as much of the team as possible before extending an offer. Here’s what you can expect:
- Application
- Schedule a call with the CTO
- Schedule a call with the CEO
- Schedule a group interview with the Engineering team
- Schedule a group interview with the Product team
- Schedule a group interview with the Go To Market team
- Reference calls
- 📝 Offer
We hope you apply!
We are also open to exploring contract opportunities as we get to know each other.