About the Role
Lead the technical evolution of a trading application that abstracts on-chain operations, enabling seamless asset access and social trading features. The platform has achieved significant user growth and trading volume within its first year.
Responsibilities
- Guide the technical direction, maintenance, and performance optimization of the primary web application (React Router, Vite) and mobile application (Expo) platforms.
- Design, develop, and deploy complex user-facing features, supporting advanced order types, perpetual trading frameworks, prediction markets, and integrated social tracking features.
- Maintain autonomy in executing full-stack adjustments where necessary, collaborating with existing TypeScript-based backend infrastructure.
- Leverage and manage agentic software tools and advanced AI assistants to maximize code velocity, code quality, and deployment efficiency.
- Formulate comprehensive execution strategies independently, translating high-level business goals into rigorous, scalable technical plans.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, consistently operating at a Staff-level or equivalent capacity with proven technical autonomy.
- Deep, comprehensive architectural understanding of the React ecosystem, modern state management, and asset compilation workflows.
- Direct technical experience building products within the blockchain ecosystem, with a distinct preference for developers familiar with Solana or Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) protocols.
- Comfort and proficiency operating within a modern, AI-augmented development environment that heavily utilizes agentic coding tools.
- Strong foundational experience with Node.js and TypeScript on the backend is highly advantageous.
Skills
- React Router
- Vite
- Expo
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Solana
- EVM
- AI-augmented development
- Agentic software tools
Location
- New York, United States
Work Type
- On-Site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff-level
Salary/Compensations
- $250K - $300K
Benefits
- Premium base salary
- Highly generous equity allocation
- Financial coverage for relocation to New York City
About the Company
- Provides an institutional-grade yet highly accessible trading application that abstracts away the complexities of on-chain operations—such as external wallets and bridging—enabling seamless, instantaneous asset access alongside advanced social trading features.
- The platform has successfully onboarded over 500,000 users and executed more than $3.5 billion in total trading volume within its first year of operation.
- An elite, lean engineering organization comprised of crypto-native talent drawn from top-tier decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital asset protocols.
Equal Opportunity
- MLabs is committed to offering equal opportunities to all candidates, ensuring no discrimination, accessible job adverts, and providing information in accessible formats.
- The goal is to foster a diverse, inclusive workplace with equal opportunities for all.
- If you need any reasonable adjustments during any part of the hiring process or you would like to see the job-advert in an accessible format please let us know at the earliest opportunity by emailing human-resources@mlabs.city.
