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Frontend Engineer

Whetstone Research

Frontend Engineer

Reposted 3 Months Ago

In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

Mid level

In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

Mid level

The Frontend Engineer will implement UI features, automate UI testing, and oversee production releases while focusing on user experience in the blockchain space.

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About the role

This role is going to be working on Pure Markets.

Responsibilities

Implementing - new UI features and improved designs
Testing - automate UI testing alongside a release pipeline
Shipping - overseeing successful production releases

What we're looking for

Hopefully you're obsessed with implementing high quality user experiences and interfaces. Ideally you're product minded and have a deep amount of respect for users. You love the blockchain industry and everything that entails, including an understanding of why non-custodial UX is what it is. You enjoy quickly testing out and iterating on a product until finding something that converts to real, tangible outcomes. You work well as part of a team, know when to ask for help, and lean on your colleagues in a remote environment to ensure we are continuously releasing improvements. You have experience delivering highly reliable and modern interfaces to millions of users.

About Whetstone Research

Whetstone Research is focused on designing and building new protocols that accelerate the future of onchain markets. The team is less than 10 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, Primitive, Aztec, and numerous others. We are working on Doppler, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping Protocol built on the EVM, used by Zora and others. Learn more about Whetstone on our website or read our blog. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.

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