Front End Developer
Silent Research Labs is a public goods organization focused on advancing web technology through cryptographic research, open source infrastructure, and ecosystem education. They support experimental applications built on novel cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge cryptography.
About Silent Research Labs
Silent Research Labs describes itself as a public goods organization improving the web. It supports ground-breaking research into experimental applications enabled by novel cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge cryptography, builds open source tools and infrastructure through transparent deployment of protocols, and drives education and ecosystem development by bringing developers, technologists, writers, and thinkers to the frontiers of decentralized application development through educational programs and community initiatives. The organization has incubated two projects, Stripchain and Silent Protocol, and is actively hiring for remote roles such as Growth Marketer, Legal Counsel, Digital Designer, Front End Developer, and Backend Engineer, emphasizing a culture of transparency, respect, remote work, and ownership-driven collaboration.
Skills
About the Role
You will focus on building high-fidelity UI and championing the user experience for our flagship products, working with a full-stack mindset as a front-end engineer. You'll build the necessary libraries to integrate our backend, built with Solidity, Circom, and snarkJS, with our TypeScript-based frontend. You'll lead the integration of backend systems into the frontend and deliver an industry-leading user experience to our users. You'll rapidly implement functional UI elements from design mocks with an eye toward performance and accessibility, ensuring components are elegant, performant, and mobile-friendly. You'll also analyze the overall software architecture and continuously contribute incremental improvements.
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of software engineering
- 2+ years of web3 experience
- Good knowledge of blockchain integration and up to date with current industry practices
- Contributed to open source projects and web3 projects
- Familiarity with the web3 tech stack, frontend and backend
- Highly familiar with ether.js, the graph and other web3 frontend stack tools
- Interested in learning new technologies
- Good knowledge of the English language, written and spoken
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain front-end interface applications that bolster SilentDAO protocols
- Rapidly implement functional UI elements from design mocks with a focus on performance and accessibility
- Ensure components are functional, elegant, performant, and mobile-friendly
- Integrate back-end components into the front-end and develop understanding of system architecture
- Analyze overall software architecture and add incremental improvements daily
Benefits
- Work remotely
- Flexible hours
- Bonus through token allocation or monetary bonus for over-delivering
- Growth fund for continuous learning and development
- Flexible vacation time off