Frontend Engineer

Axiom Trade; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 320,000 - 465,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom, based in Austin, is hiring a frontend leader to set the technical direction for our frontend. You will ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product, and build fast interfaces that handle live market data with high performance.

Ideal candidates have deep React and TypeScript experience, strong debugging fundamentals, and a track record of shipping polished products in a fast-moving environment, with high ownership and mentorship abilities.

Qualifications

• Deep React and TypeScript experience.
• Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals.
• A track record of shipping fast, reliable, polished products.
• Sharp product judgment and an eye for detail.
• Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend.
• Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product.
• Build interfaces that stay fast under live market data.
• Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality.
• Debug production issues across the browser, network, and backend.
• Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable.
• Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship.

Skills

Deep React and TypeScript experience

Excellent programming and debugging

Shipping fast, reliable products

Sharp product judgment

High ownership in fast-moving env

Tools

Jotai

TanStack Query

WebSockets

Performance profiling

Charting / data-dense UIs

Job description

About Axiom

Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.

Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.

About the Role

• Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend
• Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product
• Build interfaces that stay fast under a constant stream of live market data
• Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality
• Debug production issues across the browser, the network, and the backend
• Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable
• Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep React and TypeScript experience
• Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
• A track record of shipping fast, reliable, polished products
• Sharp product judgment and an eye for detail
• Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Frontend performance work: render cost, memory, bundle size, and jank
• Real-time data over WebSockets, including high-frequency updates and backpressure
• State management at scale (we use Jotai and TanStack Query)
• Charting, virtualized lists, or other data-dense interfaces
• Debugging production issues with logs, metrics, traces, and browser tooling

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD