Front-End Engineer, Developer Console

We are looking for a Front-End Engineer to join our growing Engineering team at Near. You will be working on implementing the interfaces and experiences for the NEAR Developer Console. Developer Console is the flagship product aimed at creating the best developer journey in the blockchain space. This is a high productivity and highly dynamic startup environment so you will need to be comfortable operating quickly but precisely amidst changing needs. There is also lots of opportunity to help inform the product development process and inject your own creativity.

To be successful in this role, you will need strong experience outputting high precision interfaces and experiences in startup and/or consulting environments. It requires a deep understanding of modern markup, styling best practices and the implementation of Typescript/JavaScript components in React. In such a dynamic environment, great communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to design and deliver web applications end to end
• The ability to solve all sorts of frontend engineering tasks
• Fluency in Typescript/Javascript and web standards
• Understanding of React (Next.js) practices (such as state management solutions, server-side rendering)
• Deep understanding of frontend security best practices
• Ability to work closely with product and design leads to collaboratively make design decisions

Nice to Have

• Experience with WAMP-proto (or WebSocket / pub-sub APIs)
• Community focus and open-source mindset
• Capable of learning and can onboard quickly
• Ability to work across multiple time zones with remote colleagues
• Ability to adapt to last-minute asks and changing timelines and priorities with flexibility and good humor
• Curiosity about the Open Web and how it can improve the world

Responsibilities

• Design and develop frontend projects for the NEAR Developer Console
• Review code, enforce quality, and guide technical direction
• Work with open source community by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase, creating and participating in events, facilitating information exchange between our community and other open source communities

About NEAR

NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The NEAR platform provides a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands.