Staff Frontend Engineer

MLabs; Remote; SGD 51,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth technology company is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer for a low-latency trading interface. This role focuses on optimizing user interactions with real-time market data and involves collaborating with executive leadership. Candidates should have a strong understanding of financial infrastructure and crypto technologies, and expertise in ReactJS and NextJS. The compensation ranges from $40K to $60K, with opportunities for significant career growth in a rapidly growing environment.

Benefits

Direct influence on product architecture

Collaboration with executive team

Highly competitive compensation with equity

Qualifications

• Experience building interfaces for trading or financial infrastructure where data integrity is critical.
• Deep understanding of crypto wallets and blockchain interaction principles.
• Strong performance intuition related to web application optimization.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and tackle complex problems.
• Expertise in ReactJS and NextJS.

Responsibilities

• Drive the frontend technical and product roadmap.
• Implement the trading interface with pixel-perfect accuracy.
• Make architectural decisions with measurable impact.
• Optimize services using ReactJS and NextJS.
• Maintain accurate user interfaces reflecting real market conditions.

Skills

Financial Infrastructure Experience

Web3/Crypto Knowledge

Technical Excellence

Ownership and Drive

Tech Stack Proficiency

Tools

ReactJS

NextJS

Job description

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Staff Frontend Engineer: Low-Latency Trading Interface

Location: Remote - Fully remote in Asia

Compensation: $40K - $60K

Join a high-growth technology company at the forefront of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchains. We are experiencing parabolic growth, managing $200 million in annualized volume and growing at over 100% weekly. Our vision is backed by influential investors, including a $500 million AUM digital asset fund and an exclusive AI/crypto accelerator with a sub-1% acceptance rate.

This is a senior, high-impact role dedicated to building a performance-critical trading interface where usability, correctness, and speed are the competitive edge. You will operate directly on systems involving real money and high market risk.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, driving the frontend technical and product roadmap
• Achieve pixel-perfect implementation of the trading interface, ensuring seamless interaction with performance-critical data feeds
• Design and implement frontend architectural decisions that have a direct and measurable impact on production systems (e.g., state management, data visualization)
• Optimize frontend services using ReactJS and NextJS for maximum latency, throughput, and fault tolerance
• Operate close to real-time market data, ensuring the user interface accurately and reliably reflects real money, real volume, and real risk

Requirements

• Financial Infrastructure Experience: Demonstrated experience building interfaces for trading, exchange, or financial infrastructure where data integrity and speed are non-negotiable
• Web3/Crypto Knowledge: Deep experience working on Crypto Wallets, or at the very least, a strong, fundamental understanding of crypto wallet integration, transaction signing, and blockchain interaction principles
• Technical Excellence: Strong systems and performance intuition, specifically related to web application optimization, rendering, and API communication
• Ownership and Drive: High ownership and the ability to thrive in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, comfortable working long hours on hard problems
• Tech Stack Proficiency: Expertise in our core stack: ReactJS and NextJS
• Location: Must be based in Asia to align with the team’s core operational hours and region

Benefits

• Exceptional Impact: Direct influence on the product and technical architecture from day one
• Executive Visibility: Direct collaboration with the CEO, COO, and founding team
• Exponential Growth: Opportunity to scale your career at a company experiencing triple-digit percentage weekly growth in volume
• Highly Competitive Package: Market-leading compensation, including a significant equity component reflective of the company’s hyper-growth trajectory and the demanding nature of the role

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