Principal / Staff Frontend Engineer
Kinetic helps users trade digital assets by aggregating liquidity across Solana decentralized exchanges for optimal pricing and execution.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Kinetic
Kinetic helps DeFi users trade digital assets efficiently by providing unified access to Solana's trading ecosystem. With it, users can discover tokens through market intelligence tools, execute swaps with optimal routing, and track portfolio performance. Kinetic combines trading functionality with discovery features to create a trading platform for Solana users.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement frontend features for a crypto trading experience. You will write and maintain high-quality, well-tested code using TypeScript, React and Next.js, and style interfaces with Tailwind. You will take full ownership of end-to-end projects, optimize performance and reliability, and collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders. You will mentor other engineers and drive technical decisions for the frontend codebase.
Requirements
- 5-10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expertise with TypeScript
- Expertise with React
- Expertise with Next.js
- Proficiency with Tailwind CSS
- Experience writing automated tests
- Self-directed ownership mentality and high agency
Responsibilities
- Design and implement frontend features for a crypto trading application
- Develop user interfaces using TypeScript React Next.js and Tailwind
- Write and maintain automated tests to ensure high code quality
- Own end-to-end delivery of major frontend projects
- Optimize frontend performance and reliability
- Mentor and guide other frontend engineers
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous equity
- Flexible location and hours
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- $100 monthly gym stipend
Hiring Process
Email jobs@kinetic.xyz with the role title in the subject line, a brief introduction and background, GitHub and LinkedIn/resume links, and links to favorite projects.
