Staff Software Engineer Perpetuals
MetaMask is an active Consensys-developed self-custodial crypto wallet and onchain finance platform available through browser extensions and mobile apps.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About MetaMask
MetaMask provides self-custodial digital-asset management and access to decentralized applications. Its current platform includes wallet functionality, token swaps, trading, payments, earning, MetaMask Card, security features, Snaps, Agent Wallet, and developer tooling. MetaMask is a Consensys product and brand rather than an independently evidenced legal entity.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the technical architecture and roadmap for the Perpetuals experience across Extension and Mobile. You will set standards for trading-critical features, lead cross-team technical initiatives, solve complex technical problems, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and contribute technical judgment to prioritization and planning.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with web and mobile-based technologies
- Experience building trading, financial, or other correctness-critical systems
- Experience with real-time data systems and resilient user experiences for unreliable network conditions
- Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or codebases
- React
- React Native
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Blockchain fundamentals
- Cross-platform and browser compatibility
- Agile development
- Full-stack application development
- API development and consumption
- Continuous Integration
- Financial and web security knowledge
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture and roadmap for the Perpetuals experience across Extension and Mobile
- Set technical direction and standards for trading-critical features
- Drive technical alignment across experience, backend, and protocol integration teams
- Identify and de-risk difficult technical problems
- Make build-versus-buy and architecture trade-off decisions
- Partner on prioritization and technical planning
- Mentor engineers and conduct design and architecture reviews
- Represent Perpetuals engineering in cross-functional planning