Frontend Application Engineer

Nascent; Toronto; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Frontend Application Engineer to craft high-performance user interfaces for a cutting-edge trading platform. In this dynamic role, you will design and build intuitive UIs, ensuring resilience and stability through rigorous testing and quality code. Collaborating within a lean, agile team, you'll tackle complex challenges and drive innovative solutions. If you're passionate about the future of crypto and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity offers you the chance to make a significant impact while working with a world-class team. Join us in shaping the future of finance!

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

16 weeks fully paid parental leave

Home office setup stipend

Retirement plan matching

Open vacation policy

Flexible work hours

Team activities

Bi-annual in-person retreats

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in front-end development, ideally with React.
• Strong UX design skills and experience with design tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build world-class UI for the trading platform.
• Ensure code quality through reviews and testing.
• Contribute to a lean agile development team.

Skills

Frontend Development

React

Angular

VueJS

UX Design

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

InVision

Figma

Balsamiq

Job description

Frontend Application Engineer

The Opportunity

As a Frontend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing and building the user interfaces that power our trading platform. From creating elegant, high-performance UI in React to collaborating across the stack, you’ll help shape products that enable our team to move fast and operate at their best. You'll contribute to a lean, agile development team—owning components end to end, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through creative solutions and sharp execution.

You will thrive in this role if you're a resourceful builder who loves solving complex challenges and turning ideas into intuitive, high-impact interfaces. You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, and you move fluidly between starting bold new projects and refining existing ones. You’re excited by the future of crypto and trading, supercharge your workflows with LLM tools, and care deeply about both speed and quality. If you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to help shape the next phase of our platform, we’d love to work with you.

Responsibilities

• Design and build world-class UI for the next phase of our trading platform, enabling our team to do their best work.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates.
• Contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.

About you

• You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems.
• You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, valuing strong communication and collaboration.
• You are curious about the future of crypto, trading, and the financial world as a whole.
• You love using LLM tools in your daily workflows.
• You are as excited by starting a project as completing, maintaining, and continually optimizing it.
• You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time.
• You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
• You are an avid learner and always keeping on top of the latest technologies.

Preferred experience

• 2-5 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS. Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
• Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications.
• UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq.
• Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby, or project work).

About Nascent…

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We've made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win.
• Explore, experiment, play.
• Always be building.
• Seek and speak truth.
• Own your shit.

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Remote and distributed working environment.
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life.
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work.
• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend.
• Retirement plan matching contributions.
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location.
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats.

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.