Staff Frontend Engineer: Design Systems & Performance

Aavelabs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aave Labs is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer who shapes product interfaces and design systems across our web platform. You’ll work autonomously, translate user needs into fast, trustworthy experiences, and raise the bar for performance and quality.

You’ll own complex, reusable components within the design system, optimize data loading and rendering, and collaborate with designers, engineers, and product leads to move bold ideas into reliable web products.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design.
• Deep experience with frontend performance engineering.
• Experience with Next.js data loading, fetching and caching, and server rendering.
• Deep experience with component-driven design systems and building for consistency at scale.
• The product sense to work without a detailed brief and identify what needs solving.
• Ability to translate complex UX problems into clear, usable interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously across our web products, building high-quality UI with a strong point of view on how it should feel, function, and perform.
• Own and evolve complex, reusable components within the Aave design system - setting the standard for quality and consistency
• Set the bar for frontend performance, from data loading, fetching and caching patterns through to server rendering and streaming
• Bring product-level thinking to everything you work on - understanding user needs, business context, and technical constraints
• Collaborate with our designers, engineers, and product leads to bring clarity to ambiguous problems
• Help raise the bar for the team through the quality of your work and the way you approach problems

Skills

React

TypeScript

CSS

System design

Frontend performance

Next.js

Design systems

Product sense

UX simplification

Tools

Next.js

Server rendering

Job description

Aave Labs is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer who shapes product interfaces and design systems across our web platform. You’ll work autonomously, translate user needs into fast, trustworthy experiences, and raise the bar for performance and quality.

You’ll own complex, reusable components within the design system, optimize data loading and rendering, and collaborate with designers, engineers, and product leads to move bold ideas into reliable web products.