Product Engineer

SOLANA FOUNDATION; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Solana Foundation seeks a Product Engineer to enhance its product offerings. Responsibilities include building scalable UI components and collaborating with teams to develop tools for the Solana ecosystem. This is an opportunity to innovate in a fast-paced environment and make a significant impact on user experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a full stack or frontend engineer.
• Experience building modern React frontends using TypeScript and associated tools.

Responsibilities

• Build user and business-facing products with elegant and scalable UI components.
• Work on open source frontend gaps and develop tools.
• Develop an open source component library for Solana.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Frontend engineering

React

TypeScript

Ailwind

Shadcn

Radix

Motion

Job description

Who We Are

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.

What We Do

The Solana Foundation Product team is responsible for working with internal and external teams to build tooling, infrastructure and scaffolds that help builders create better products across the ecosystem. The product team works full-stack to find solutions to acute problems and find collaboration opportunities to build standards, working groups and provision grants where appropriate.

The Opportunity

Solana Foundation is seeking a highly driven Product Engineer to join our Product team. The ideal candidate is driven, product-minded and committed to finding a balance between quality and shipping. You will work with the internal product organization on building new scaffolds, templates and big product idea we’re working on in 2025. As a small team within a larger org, we’re generalists who can slot smaller projects into a bigger picture.

To be successful in this role

Responsibilities

• Build user and business-facing products with elegant and scalable UI components

• Work with internal product and engineering teams to identify open source frontend gaps in Solana and remedy through tool development

• Assist in the continued development of Solana Wallet Adapter, UIKit and product microsites

• Work with product team to build new products and open source scaffolds

• Develop an open source component library usable by the Solana Foundation and broader ecosystem

Desired Background

• 5+ years experience as a full stack or frontend engineer

• Experience build modern react frontends using typescript, ailwind, shadcn, radix, motion, etc

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with blockchain and blockchain based-tooling (Solana experience preferred but not required)