Frontend / Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Rapid Product Deployment: Ship robust, production-grade user interfaces for web game-like systems, transactional markets, and highly interactive consumer features on a rapid, continuous cadence
• Architecture & Design Systems: Architect, expand, and maintain a highly responsive frontend component library, defining the design systems, motion mechanics, and micro-interactions from concept to completion
• Frictionless Prototyping: Develop high-fidelity prototypes and iterate aggressively across multiple product experiments per week, establishing an environment focused strictly on objective product data and zero ego
• Gameified Mechanics: Construct immersive, ultra-responsive consumer interfaces that transform complex financial and prediction market mechanics into seamless, engaging, and gamified digital experiences
• Founder-Direct Collaboration: Work strictly alongside the founding executive team, effectively removing product managers and design layers to establish a highly streamlined, high-impact product delivery workflow

Requirements

• Advanced Frontend Craftsmanship: Proven expertise utilizing React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and core modern web fundamentals, paired with a distinct ability to autonomously navigate complex technical challenges (leveraging advanced tooling and AI where appropriate)
• Elite Aesthetic Taste: A demonstrable track record of shipping highly polished, visually arresting digital interfaces that set industry-standard visual benchmarks
• Velocity and Execution: An obsessive attention to micro-detail paired with a relentless drive to ship software rapidly; possessing the rare capacity to execute high-fidelity work under tight timeframes
• Web3 Infrastructure Alignment: Deep familiarity with Web3 tech stacks—specifically regarding wallet integrations, cryptographic signing protocols, and on-chain read/write interactions—or an aggressive capacity to establish mastery within two weeks
• Founder Mentality: A preference for broad scope and unstructured environments, with the appetite to manage critical functions extending well beyond a conventional job description
• Geographic Presence: Full-time physical presence at the organization's office headquarters in San Francisco, California. This is an onsite, dedicated collaboration model with no remote or hybrid exceptions

Bonus Points

• Prior experience as a founder or foundational early employee at a fast-scaling, venture-backed startup
• Deep, native alignment with consumer-facing crypto protocols, decentralized finance (DeFi), or digital gaming ecosystems
• Robust personal portfolio showcasing creative, complex, or unconventional personal technical projects and engineering experiments
• Definitive, articulate opinions on modern product frameworks and tooling standards (e.g., Linear, Vercel, Arc, or leading interface design paradigms)

Benefits

• Substantial Equity Package: Significant foundational equity allocation providing a distinct footprint on the organization's capitalization table from day one
• Top-of-Market Cash Compensation: Highly competitive base salary structures optimized for top-tier engineering talent
• Future Upside: Direct exposure to potential future token grants and robust equity refresher mechanisms positioned at strategic dilution inflection points to mitigate dilution
• Comprehensive Protection: Full-scale premium medical, dental, and vision insurance policies
• Elite Professional Acceleration: A high-density talent pool, complete product ownership, and the opportunity to work alongside elite builders within an ambitious, high-trajectory environment where the work itself is the ultimate perk

Interview Process

• Stage 1: Initial Founder Consultation - A deep-dive discussion focusing on product vision, culture, and alignment with the first Co-Founder
• Stage 2: Executive Collaboration - A strategic exploration regarding operational execution, scale, and technical philosophy with the second Co-Founder
• Stage 3: Final Execution Review - A core assessment focusing on advanced technical capabilities, potentially including an interactive work trial or architectural deep-dive with the founding engineering team