Staff Software Engineer, Frontend – Product UI

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend – Product User Interface

About Paxos

Paxos is on a mission to facilitate the transfer of any asset at any time, ensuring trustworthiness throughout the process. The existing financial infrastructure is outdated, costly, inefficient, and fraught with risk – disadvantaging more individuals than it includes. Consequently, we're embarking on its reconstruction.

Being a regulated blockchain infrastructure firm, we utilize technology to tokenize, secure, exchange, and finalize assets for corporate clients such as PayPal, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers. Paxos stands out as a well-funded blockchain enterprise, with over $500 million in cumulative funding from renowned backers like OakHC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal Ventures, and Declaration Partners. Together, we empower today's financial leaders to establish a more open and dependable economy.

Our Regulatory Platform unit seeks a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our expanding Regulatory Platform Engineering team. Your duties will encompass the design, construction, and upkeep of our website infrastructure, platform, and functionalities, ensuring their resilience, scalability, and efficiency. We play a pivotal role in Paxos' growth, responsible for developing the infrastructure to tackle our customers' concerns related to regulations, compliance, and risk. We expedite the introduction of Paxos-based products while minimizing risks.

As a Senior Engineer, your responsibilities include:

1. Formulating and crafting the groundwork for our websites, encompassing web servers, load balancers, and caching systems.
2. Supplying exceptionally high-performing websites and functionalities for a global audience.
3. Collaborating with the DevOps team to deploy and administer website infrastructure on cloud-based platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
4. Creating reusable code and libraries for prospective utilization in website infrastructure ventures.
5. Ensuring the technical viability of UI/UX designs by working closely with the design unit.
6. Remaining well-informed about emerging trends and technologies in website development.
7. Composing clean, well-documented, and sustainable code.
8. Perpetually enhancing website performance and user experience.
9. Pursuing accuracy in product ideation and development, guaranteeing that designs and executions align completely with the company's mission and product objectives.
10. Immersing yourself in blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies for businesses and investors, our regulation-oriented approach, and more!

Find out more about being a Senior Engineer at Paxos

Your background should encompass:

1. Over 5 years of experience in infrastructure and architecture: scheming and implementing frontend infrastructure, which includes deployment pipelines, construction systems, and surveillance tools.
2. Over 8 years of feature development in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript / TypeScript, as well as expertise in frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.
3. Proficiency in website infrastructure technologies, including web servers, load balancers, and caching systems on cloud-based platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
4. Comprehensive knowledge of frontend tools such as package managers, construction utilities, and task coordinators, in addition to frontend workflows such as version control, code examination, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
5. Familiarity with server-side rendering frameworks like Node.js or Next.js.
6. Strong grasp of authentication and security protocols, for instance, SSL, TLS, and OAuth.
7. Experience with Git, JIRA, and other project management instruments.
8. Outstanding communication and cooperation skills.
9. The ability to function in a fast-paced environment and oversee multiple projects concurrently.
10. A passion for developing top-tier websites and website infrastructure.

You may also possess:

1. Mastery of essential engineering principles, encompassing data structures, optimal design practices, runtime enhancements, and algorithmic intricacy.
2. A solid understanding of ideas like load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices-type cluster, idempotence, ACID, guaranteed delivery, etc.
3. Technical expertise in at least one domain, such as Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS.
4. Familiarity with online cloud architectures and frameworks, encompassing clustering (Kubernetes), containerization (Docker), message queuing (MQ / Kafka), telemetry/instrumentation (Prometheus/Grafana), etc.
5. Familiarity with APIs / Connectivity technologies, including REST APIs or sockets, TCP, UDP, multicast.
6. Eagerness to collaborate openly and harmoniously with a diverse, multidisciplinary team, efficiently collaborating with stakeholders.
7. A consistent quest for acquiring new technologies, innovating, and discovering superior methods to tackle engineering challenges in high-performance trading systems and APIs, such as performance tuning, latency optimizations, and ongoing API enhancements.

What you'll appreciate about Paxos:

Paxos has consistently earned recognition on Forbes' Fintech 50, CB Insights Blockchain 50, and Built In's "Best Places to Work" listings. Paxos employees wield considerable influence over our enterprise, along with perks like company equity, healthcare coverage, family leave, a quarterly allowance for personal development, a stipend for home office setup, and limitless paid time off. From team product presentations and virtual learning sessions to care packages and an active Slack #shoutouts channel, there are abundant chances to connect and make an impact. Help us persist in constructing a new, open financial system from one of our three office locations or right from your own home!

Learn more:

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Company

• Web 3.0 Remains the Desired Destination
• A Discussion with Paxos Product Authorities
• Paxos Secures $300M in Series D Funding at a Valuation of $2.4B

Clients

• Paxos & PayPal Bring Cryptocurrency to Millions of Users
• Mercado Libre Achieves Over 1 Million Users in Just 60 Days with Paxos
• Paxos Was Created to Safeguard Its Customers

Media

• CNBC Crypto World Interviews Paxos CEO Regarding USDP Stablecoin
• Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla Provides Insights into the Present State of the Global Economy on Yahoo Finance
• Yahoo Finance Interviews Paxos CEO Regarding Testimony to U.S. Congress and Stablecoin Infrastructure

Our Paxos team is composed of passionate individuals hailing from diverse corners of the world, each offering unique perspectives and experiences. If this opportunity excites you but your background doesn't precisely match the description, don't hesitate to apply! Diverse voices play a crucial role in helping us establish a more transparent and open economy.