Frontend Engineer
Pod Network is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for fair, high-performance global markets. It provides MEV-free batch auctions, on-chain market primitives, EVM compatibility, and live 24/7 perpetual futures.
Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026
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About Pod Network
Pod Network operates a high-performance Layer-1 network designed for fair, global markets. Its streaming, leaderless architecture supports transaction finality in under 150 milliseconds and throughput exceeding 300,000 transactions per second. The network includes fully on-chain order book, matching, liquidation, and oracle primitives, with Ethereum-compatible interfaces for developers. Pod serves developers building markets and traders using spot, perpetual, options, prediction, and other on-chain markets.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own frontend surfaces across Pod's product range, design scalable real-time UI architecture for data-intensive workflows, improve user experience, uphold frontend standards, collaborate on SDK and API design, and contribute to full-stack improvements, tooling, testing, and CI/CD.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and React.
- Experience with real-time data systems, including WebSockets, streaming feeds, and live order books.
- Strong grasp of Redux, Zustand, and React Query state-management patterns.
- Comfortable working from Figma through production.
- Ability to use AI tools to prototype quickly and build better products.
- Track record of shipping real products used by real users.
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols, on-chain data, and Web3 tooling.
- Experience building production trading or financial UIs at scale.
- Contributions to JavaScript or TypeScript SDKs or public developer tooling.
- Exposure to backend services such as Node or Go.
- Prior work at a DeFi protocol or crypto-native product team.
Responsibilities
- Own frontend surfaces across all of Pod's products.
- Design and implement scalable, real-time UI architecture for data-intensive and high-volume workflows.
- Build and maintain order book interfaces, position management views, trade execution flows, explorers, onboarding flows, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards, and homepages.
- Improve UX based on direct customer feedback and product intuition.
- Set and uphold frontend standards for performance, code quality, and developer experience.
- Collaborate with backend and protocol engineers on SDK and API design and contribute full-stack improvements where needed.
- Contribute to tooling, testing infrastructure, and CI/CD practices.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- High-impact role at the product layer of a novel layer-1 protocol.
- Direct collaboration with a small, senior team moving fast.
- Travel opportunities and visibility in the crypto community.
