Senior Front-End Engineer

About Messari.

Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto/Web3 with confidence. We bring transparency and smarter qualitative and quantitative analytics to the industry by combining a global research database with a comprehensive suite of data visualization and asset discovery tools. We help drive smarter participation in crypto from individuals and institutions alike.   The name “Messari” came from the Franciscan monks who declared "clean books" a moral imperative during the renaissance and pushed merchants to use proper accounting methods.  This led to the flourishing of investment via "trust but verify" methods and industry growth throughout Europe. That's what we aim to do. Provide participants, investors, builders, platforms, and everyone else with reliable information to better participate in the crypto ecosystem.   Our users range from some of the most prominent analysts, investors, and crypto individuals to top organizations including Coinbase, BitGo, Anchorage, 0x, Chainanalysis, Ledger, Compound, MakerDAO, and many more.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced front-end engineer to build analytical platforms that help users learn, analyze, and participate in web3. As a front-end engineer your role is to build a cohesive user experience helping users navigate the expansive web3 world leveraging our data on governance, DeFi, on-chain metrics, qualitative research, and much more.   Building a resilient and scalable front-end is of up-most importance as the Messari web application continues to gain traffic. The role will involve inspecting our current front-end methodologies to find more concise and efficient ways to enhance our front-end system as we continue to expand the front-end engineering team.   If you enjoy finding ways to display data-dense content in a digestible way, moving at a rapid pace to adapt to the fluid crypto environment and challenging yourself to innovate the front-end stack, this role is for you.

What you'll do

• Actively participate alongside other product team members in the ideation, scoping and design of customer facing features used by millions of users on messari.io.
• Build and maintain data-dense UIs using a modern frontend stack including technologies such as Typescript, React, GraphQL, NextJS, Golang, and Sanity.
• Collaborate with Research, Marketing and other teams at Messari to build and maintain internal (web-based) tooling that enhances their workflows.
• Build integrations with wallets & smart contracts on Ethereum and other blockchains to support features like voting on governance proposals.
• Participate in the design of GraphQL and Rest APIs which serve messari.io.
• Continuously advocate for and implement technologies within our stack to improve user experience, performance, security and developer experience.

Who you are

• 6+ years experience with modern front-end technologies including React and TypeScript
• a desire to work on big complex projects with lots of creative freedom
• a passion for shipping high-quality products
• an interest in the crypto space, and a love for building tools that help users navigate the web3 world
• empathetic and love to help your teammates grow

Nice-to-haves

• worked with other elements of our tech stack: GraphQL, Postgres, Golang, Node
• specific experience with Web3 and/or data visualization tools

Projects you could work on

• Governor - A continuously evolving governance product which brings clarity to the world of protocol & DAO governance. Integrate with on-chain governance frameworks like Compound’s Governor Bravo and off-chain frameworks like Snapshot. Build intuitive user experiences which help users find and better understand governance proposals for protocols and DAOs they participate in.
• Screener & Asset Profiles - Assets are at the heart of the Messari product. Build and improve on tools which provide Messari customers with powerful ways to find, compare and understand the thousands of different crypto assets tracked by Messari.
• Data Dashboards - Build data-dense dashboards which provide users with quick access to the vast catalog of metrics, events, charts and other data that’s ingested, curated and published by Messari. Give users control over the data they want to see and how they want to see it.
• Content Management Solutions - Work with both bespoke and off-the-shelf content management solutions which assist internal Messari teams in curating, categorizing and enhancing the f