Staff Frontend Engineer
Summary
Build and design the frontend trading interface for a crypto derivatives platform (Superluminal), focusing on order entry, positions, pricing, and charts using TypeScript/React with full ownership and autonomy.
You will build and own the frontend for Superluminal using TypeScript and React. You will design the core trading experience, including order entry, positions, pricing display, and charts. You will make UX decisions that reflect how a perps trader actually thinks. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy on a small, fast-moving team.
Responsibilities
- Build and own the frontend for Superluminal using TypeScript and React
- Design the core trading experience: order entry, positions, pricing display, charts
- Make UX decisions that reflect how a perps trader actually thinks, not just what's technically clean
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy on a small, fast-moving team
Requirements
- Senior or staff-level frontend experience, comfortable working with minimal oversight
- Strong, hands-on skills in TypeScript and React
- Genuine familiarity with perps trading, ideally as a personal trader or close follower of the space
- Comfort using AI tools like Claude to move quickly, balanced with the ability to solve hard problems independently
- Based in the US, or able to maintain strong overlap with a US-hours team