Front End Staff Engineer, Open Source, TBD

Company Description

Founded in July 2021, TBD is one of Block's four business units, alongside Square, Cash App, and Tidal.  At TBD, we believe in a decentralized future that returns ownership and control over your finances, data, and identity. Guided by this vision, TBD is building an open source platform and developer infrastructure that enables everyone to access and participate in the global economy.

TBD is inviting the world to join us in building and adopting open and decentralized technologies that solve real problems for real people — from next generation infrastructure that lowers the cost of global payments and enables frictionless commerce, to decentralized identity technologies that enable anyone to access and participate in the global economy.  Our mission advances economic empowerment through the power of decentralized solutions, built open source and collaboratively.

The offerings we build will provide developers, institutions, and individuals with the capabilities needed to build the next wave of innovative apps and services, and access this decentralized future.  We’re leveraging bitcoin and other decentralized technologies to reinvent the global financial system in an open and permissionless way to further Block’s mission of economic empowerment, with a global focus.

Job Description

We’re building the next generation of the decentralized web – returning data back to users. As a Front End Staff Engineer, you’ll be tackling Big Problems. We want you to bring your experience, expertise, and creativity to bear: welcoming people into an easy-to-use internet economy, giving them control over their data, and bringing a necessary decentralized identity layer to the web. This is a high-level frontend generalist role which reflects the fluid nature of our work. There are wonderful advancements in decentralized and blockchain technologies right now - and we bring these together to work to solve real pain points for everyday people, globally.

You will work in TBD’s Open Source Engineering team, and report to TBD’s Head of Open Source.

You:

• Apply a user-centric approach to UX and component development
• Want to direct your work around a mission we all believe will usher a new wave of inclusion and innovation for the web.
• Enjoy leveraging your technical influence to build motivated, positive, feedback-focused teams.
• Have led public development open source efforts, or are committed to learning how to be amazing at it.
• Care about testing and have earned your opinions about when to use unit, integration, and system tests.
• Are excited to advance Self-Sovereign Identity. 
• Are equally excited to work on Decentralized Web Nodes and helping creators deliver decentralized applications.
• And are further excited to build out tbDEX and Web5 as the foundational projects to exchange value and enable decentralized application programming over the internet.

Qualifications

You:

• Are experienced, with 8+ years delivering several types of projects at scale. You’re accomplished at determining what’s needed and have good tools for how to get there.
• Are fluent in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, PWA development, and advanced Web platform APIs. You are interested in working across languages and frameworks, and advocate to use the best tool for the job.
• Are a natural leader. Team members look to you for inspiration and guidance, and you excel at helping those around you reach your expertise and beyond.
• Are documentation-minded, and looking to bring your engineering experience and rigor to a nascent organization.

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $202,500 - USD $247,500
Zone B: USD $192,400 - USD $235,200
Zone C: USD $182,300 - USD $222,800
Zone D: USD $172,200 - USD $210,400

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans including company match 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D