Product Designer

pod network; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Travel opportunities

High-impact role

Job summary

Pod network in Baltimore is seeking a UI Engineer to own and develop frontend surfaces for various products. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in TypeScript and React, and is comfortable collaborating across the stack.

You will design scalable user interfaces, improve UX, and contribute to both frontend and backend aspects, with a strong emphasis on real-time data management. A competitive salary and travel opportunities are part of the offer.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in TypeScript and React.
• Experience with real-time data systems like WebSockets.
• Strong grasp of state management patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend surfaces across all of pod's products.
• Design and implement scalable UI architecture.
• Build and maintain order book interfaces and dashboards.

Skills

TypeScript

React

WebSockets

Redux

AI tools

Job description

About the Role

At Pod, you'll own UI across the full range of what we ship - trading interfaces, explorers, onboarding flows, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards, homepages, and whatever we dream up next. You'll also have the freedom to move across the stack, contributing to backend improvements, APIs, and other interfaces as needed.

You’ll work closely with protocol engineers and product to shape both architecture and experience. You should have a genuine obsession with great UX and an eye for detail, and you should want to use the things you build.

You're also AI-native. You know how to use tools like Claude to prototype fast and move quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend surfaces across all of pod's products.
• Design and implement scalable, real-time UI architecture for data-intensive and high-volume workflows.
• Build and maintain products including but not limited to order book interfaces, position management views, trade execution flows, explorers, onboarding flows, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards, and homepages.
• Improve UX based on direct customer feedback and product intuition.
• Set and uphold frontend standards for performance, code quality, and developer experience.
• Collaborate with backend and protocol engineers on SDK and API design, and contribute full-stack improvements where needed.
• Contribute to tooling, testing infrastructure, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

Must-haves:

• Deep expertise in TypeScript and React.
• Experience with real-time data systems (WebSockets, streaming feeds, live order books).
• Strong grasp of state management patterns (Redux, Zustand, React Query).
• Comfortable working from Figma through to production.
• AI-native - you know how to use AI tools to move fast and build better.
• A track record of shipping real products with real users.

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with DeFi protocols, on-chain data, and Web3 tooling (Viem, subgraphs, etc.).
• Experience building production trading or financial UIs at scale.
• Contributions to JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs or public developer tooling.
• Exposure to backend services - Node, Go, or similar.
• Prior work at a DeFi protocol or crypto-native product team.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• High-impact role at the product layer of a novel layer-1 protocol.
• Direct collaboration with a small, senior team moving fast.
• Travel opportunities and visibility in the crypto community.