Front-End Engineer

Posted on: June 176th 2022

Yield is building fixed-rate lending and interest rate markets for decentralized finance. We have pioneered new ways to borrow and lend, advancing the state of the art in on-chain financial products and automated market makers.

We are looking for an experienced front-end engineer to help us build the next version of our protocol.

About Yield

  • We pioneered the use of fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lend with the introduction of “fyTokens” (fixed yield tokens), and built the first automated market maker for fyTokens.
  • We are backed by Paradigm, the leading DeFi Venture Capital investor.

Responsibilities

  • Work as part of a team to build user experiences and user interfaces that make decentralized finance products accessible and easy-to-use
  • Design, implement, and test the various user interfaces that make up the next generation of the Yield Protocol
  • Develop decentralized finance applications that are functional, elegant, performant modern client-side React applications

Requirements

  • 1-3 years of React experience
  • A deep understanding of the architecture of modern client-side React applications
  • Ability to collaborate effectively on a wide breadth of technical topics
  • Self-driven, autonomous, personality with a desire to develop protocols that will have an impact on decentralized finance
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-haves

  • Prior experience creating a design system or component library
  • Familiarity with the web3 frontend stack (ethers.js/web3.js, EIP-1193, client-side private key management, etc.)
  • Understanding of  blockchain dev-op processes
  • Familiarity with modern React tools and practices (Hooks, Context  API etc. ) and redux state management
  • Frontend/UI testing know-how
  • Experience with TypeScript in React
  • Degree in computer science
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