Senior Front End & Web3 Engineer - Remote

About Premia

Premia is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol specializing in options trading & swap aggregation for cryptocurrency assets. It aims to provide a on-chain, trustless, and non-custodial platform for users to trade & earn. Premia is at the forefront of building products that unlock value through efficient asset exchange, paving the way for the future of trading in open, global onchain markets.

Our products – the Premia Interface and the Archetype Interface – are powered by the Premia Protocol. With a user-centric approach, deep liquidity, and unparalleled capital efficiency, the Premia Protocol leads onchain option trading and brings institutional-grade derivatives to the DeFi ecosystem.

Joining Premia means being part of a team dedicated to revolutionizing digital asset exchange.

Who Are You?

A senior-level front-end engineer (TypeScript + React veteran) with a solid background in financial applications. You are familiar with decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain (or complementary Layer-2 networks) such as Premia and Uniswap, as well as centralized crypto applications such as Deribit and Coinbase, and understand the frontend technologies often used by these projects.

You are passionate about building highly scalable, resilient, and performant web interfaces for the next generation of financial applications on the internet and have a wide set of skills and experience to execute on this. You understand the necessity for building beautiful, reactive, and user-friendly applications in order to facilitate the transition to web3.

You have experience and are culturally aligned with fast-moving small teams. You have worked in a remote (globally distributed) team before, preferably in a startup environment. You are self-driven, highly knowledgeable about building performant, scalable React applications, and can ship features and patches swiftly when needed. You can identify company priorities, own them, and iterate quickly to ship the best solution within aggressive deadlines.

You understand the necessity of thoroughly testing financial applications and the interfaces thereof before and after shipping any feature to production. You have experience utilizing testing suites, CI/CD, and issue tracking systems to effectively maintain resilient production software at scale.

You can write and speak highly fluent English and have great communication skills. You work well in a team.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Responsibilities:
• Design, scope, and estimate the development time required for financial application pages and features.
• Build, test, and ship features, patches, and updates to our web applications within reasonable, aggressive deadlines.
• Develop and maintain our frontend NPM packages such as the Premia SDK and other utility packages.
• Collaborate with multiple in-house teams and cross-functional partners on all aspects of product development.
• Identify and advocate for team-wide areas of improvement and best practices.
• Mentor team members to refine their technical and architectural skills and ensure an excellent user experience.
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in leading code reviews to prevent technical debt.
• Technical Skills:
• Experience owning and shipping financial products
• A mastery of Javascript, Typescript, and React with an understanding of blockchain and cryptography fundamentals.
• Deep understanding of NextJS and modern tooling for application development in Typescript
• Experience working with GraphQL
• Understanding and experience working with databases such as MongoDB, SQL, Firebase, etc.
• Basic web3 understanding: Wallets, transactions, explorers, POW/POS, gas price, etc.
• Ability to quickly iterate and ship highly resilient, scalable code backed by complete test suites
• Ability to build modern, event-driven React frontends, converting Figma designs into functional components
• Deep understanding and experience with Git
• Knowledge of engineering best practices such as CI/CD and live issue tracking
• Exceptional judgment, problem-solving skills, and an analytical mindset
• Ability to work in areas beyond your comfort zone and motivation for personal growth
• A passion for life-long learning and a self-awareness of your learning style

Requirements

• Technical Expertise:
• 6-8 years of industry experience in software engineering (include university and pre-university software engineering)

Nice To Have

• Previous experience building applications with web3 libraries such as viem, ethers, wagmi, etc.
• Mastery of CSS, preferably via a library like Tailwind/StyleX
• Experience using financial applications or trading options personally
• Open source software contributions, especially to major web3 projects
• 4+ years of university-level software engineering training and education

Join Us

At Premia, we are a globally distributed, fully remote organization committed to building a more efficient, transparent, and decentralized future of markets. If you’re passionate about revolutionizing financial systems and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.

Apply now to be part of the future of onchain markets