Frontend Engineer
Pod is a novel stake-based programmable layer one blockchain designed to bring optimal latency to decentralized systems. By using a simple design without blocks or chains, it aims to enable developers to build fast and user-friendly Web3 products. They have raised a $10M seed round from investors including a16z crypto.
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About Pod Network
Pod Network is addressing the slow, expensive, and unreliable nature of current blockchain infrastructure that hinders the development of user-friendly applications. Their solution is a novel stake-based programmable layer one built with a simple design: transactions are streamed to validators for attestation and timestamping, eliminating blocks, chains, and complex consensus protocols. This architecture aims for optimal latency (~200ms) and high throughput. Pod is also developing EVMx, a backward-compatible extension of the EVM, to support the Ethereum developer community and their Solidity toolchains. The company follows a philosophy of UX-driven infrastructure, creating products tightly integrated with their own technology to provide value without users needing to understand the underlying decentralized network. They are interested in applications like global payments, decentralized social networks, e-voting, on-chain games, and real-time marketplaces.
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About the Role
You own frontend surfaces across the product range including trading interfaces, explorers, onboarding flows, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards and homepages. You design and implement scalable real time UI architecture for data intensive workflows. You build and maintain products such as order book interfaces, position management views, trade execution flows, explorers, onboarding flows, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards and homepages. You improve UX based on direct feedback and product intuition. You set and uphold frontend standards for performance, code quality, and developer experience. You collaborate with backend and protocol engineers on SDK and API design, and contribute full stack improvements where needed. You contribute to tooling, testing infrastructure, and CI/CD practices.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and React.
- Experience with real-time data systems (WebSockets, streaming feeds, live order books).
- Strong grasp of state management patterns (Redux, Zustand, React Query).
- Comfortable working from Figma through to production.
- AI-native you know how to use AI tools to move fast and build better.
- A track record of shipping real products with real users.
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols, on-chain data, and Web3 tooling (Viem, subgraphs, etc.).
- Experience building production trading or financial UIs at scale.
- Contributions to JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs or public developer tooling.
- Exposure to backend services - Node, Go, or similar.
- 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 products including but not limited to 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
- 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.