Front-End Developer

About the job

Frontend Software Engineer

EDX is seeking a full-time Frontend Software Engineer to join its Engineering Department, responsible for building the next generation digital assets platform. In this position you will collaborate with stakeholders, get to know the ins and outs of the digital asset space, and get to contribute on building an entire platform from the ground up. The position will report to the Head of Engineering.

EDX is a new digital asset marketplace designed to meet the needs of both crypto native firms and the worlds largest financial institutions. Backed by Citadel, Fidelity, Schwab, Virtu, Sequoia, Paradigm, and others, EDX enables safer, faster, and more efficient trading and settlement of digital assets, leveraging best practices from traditional financial markets on a purpose-built crypto platform.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement UI components and reliable features based on functional requirements within aggressive time frames
• Maintain and expand the design system to ensure a consistent user experience across the applications
• Collaborate with fellow engineers and the product team in an agile environment to design and coordinate the development and testing of new features
• Identify, test and propose improvements to the existing application for maintainability and scalability, and to accelerate functionality and performance
• Participate in task breakdown and estimations, code reviews, bug fixes and deployment preparation

Experience:

• Development of reliable, maintainable,      and scalable web applications that run in the cloud
• Excellent understanding of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques
• Ability to investigate and debug problems if/when they occur across multiple code bases
• Start-up-comfort: wear many hats in a fast-paced environment, willing and eager to learn and design new technologies; must be flexible in approach
• Structured thinker, and effective communicator with the ability to contribute to design dialogues as well as initiate questions to achieve clarity when needed
• 4+ years of professional development experience
• BA/BS in Computer Science or similar

Skills:

• TypeScript, React
• Testing frameworks like Jest, Vitest, and Playwright
• REST and WebSocket APIs