Sr. Frontend Engineer

Who We Are

Unit is bringing every financial asset in the world on-chain. We’re a protocol built on top of Hyperliquid, which is the fastest growing decentralized exchange and it’s own L1 blockchain. 

We utilize the Hyperliquid infrastructure to create spot markets for assets we tokenize, and perpetual futures markets for any asset for which we provide a price feed.

If you’ve traded spot BTC, ETH, SOL, or FARTCOIN and PUMP on Hyperliquid, you’ve traded Unit assets on Unit deployed markets. Since launching these markets over the past few months, we’ve done over $9B in volume and have amassed a TVL of over $700M.

We’re a small but elite team that moves fast, values agency and intelligence, and works extremely hard towards our shared vision of bringing real value and innovation to the space.

The Role

As Unit expands, we will build and launch products that reach millions of end users. We’re looking for a high-impact, Senior Frontend Engineer who can lead the development of these user-facing products. As the lead frontend engineer, you will have the ability to drive the architecture, tech stack, and product design decisions for these products as well.

What We’re Looking For

You should be able to work with autonomy, be extremely experienced with building super performant web applications, and have a passion for crafting delightful user experiences. You should have a strong product sense and ideally understand trading or at least have an interest in innovating on the trading user experience. Design skills are not necessary, but a good eye and strong design sense is required.

We don’t care where you’ve worked or what school you went to, but we do care that you’ve built beautiful, performant web applications that tens or hundreds of thousands of users have enjoyed. We care greatly about our craft and want to work with others who share the same passion.

Skills You Should Have

• Extremely experienced with React including deep knowledge of hooks, context API, suspense, concurrent features, advanced state management via React context, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, Jotai, or similar, and routing via either Next.js or React Router

• Elite in Javascript and Typescript

• Experience and expertise with modern React features like React server components and Next.js app router

• Experience with complex validations via libs like zod/yup as well as designing and working with type safe client/server interactions

• Expert in performance and optimization including bundle analysis and render optimization

• Expert in CSS styling and responsive design including significant experience with Tailwind 

• Experience in testing including unit, component, and end-to-end testing including testing frameworks

• Familiarity with Figma and design to implementation workflows

• General tooling familiarity including yarn, git, Vercel, AWS, etc.

• Strongly security minded and deep familiarity with best security practices

Location

Our entire team is based in person in New York City. We’d strongly prefer candidates to either be based in New York or willing to relocate (we unfortunately cannot sponsor visas at this time). However, for extremely exceptional candidates, we may be willing to consider remote or partially remote arrangements.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity in a high potential startup

• Work with serious and passionate team members who are the best at what they do

• Play a direct role in bringing novel products to market that have never existed before

• Have direct ownership of your work in a meritocratic environment and flat org structure

• Healthy, catered meals daily

If you’re excited by the prospect of working with a small, but extremely high caliber team that iterates fast and is going after a huge opportunity, we’d love for you to apply!