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Company description

Balancer is an open-source DeFi protocol built on the Ethereum network (including many L2s). It is a base-layer AMM (Automated Market Maker) and DEX (Decentralized Exchange). Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Balancer offers new solutions to the problems of traditional and centralized exchanges. Developers leverage Balancer as a permissionless building block to innovate freely and create new liquidity solutions. Balancer’s mission is to become the primary source of DeFi liquidity by providing the most flexible and powerful platform for programmable liquidity.

Where does Balancer fit in DeFi?

High-level job description

Balancer has just launched its v3 protocol. V3 makes the Balancer protocol much more flexible and developer-friendly. The team you will join will build the canonical consumer interface to interact with the v3 Balancer protocol. We’re looking for people that have a strong user-focused mindset with an interest in solving the new problems that exist in the Web3 space. You’re comfortable working in an open-source environment with lots of moving pieces, give attention to detail, and have a curiosity for learning new technologies and systems.

You will:

• Build user-facing experiences for accessing and interacting with the Balancer protocol.
• Work closely with designers, engineers, and other product owners in the Balancer ecosystem.
• Be responsible for planning and architecting new and existing systems that tie together the various elements that make up a Web3 app in a clean and modular way.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have extensive experience working in JavaScript/TypeScript-based systems.
• Have extensive experience working with React/NextJS.
• Experience as a core member of a software development team with significant contributions.
• An interest or passion for working on DeFi protocols.
• Have some experience with Wagmi/Viem, GraphQL and Solidity, but these are not essential.

The ideal candidate will probably be a mid-level to senior frontend developer who is either of the following:

• A React/NextJS developer with Web3 experience (+++)
• A React/NextJS developer without Web3 experience but has used DeFi extensively (++)
• A React/NextJS developer with an interest in Web3 (+)

If you’re excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

More about this role

• Fully remote, the whole Balancer team is remote, and there is no office.
• Open-source, current production app
• Tech stack:
  • NextJS
  • TypeScript
  • Turbopack (monorepo)
  • Vercel
  • react-query
  • Wagmi/Viem
  • ChakraUI
  • Vitest/Playwright

Perks

• Competitive salary + token incentives
• Flexible PTO
• At least two on-sites (in-person meetups) per year
• Experience at leading DeFi protocol
• With a remote team all over the world, you can work from wherever you want!
• Wellness & co-working stipends plus phone and internet reimbursements

About us

Arrakis is the leading non-custodial, onchain market making solution for protocols and DAOs. Our customers include Ether.fi, Maker, Stargate, Across, Lido, Karpatkey and other industry leaders.

We believe in a world where every organization, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded onchain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

DeFi is at risk itself of being overcome by centralised actors however. As Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has become more complex, sophisticated actors have extracted more and more value known as MEV. Arrakis is working on next generation solutions at the speartip of the MEV supply chain, such as HOT AMM, to protect LPs and token issuers against this value extraction.

The role

As one of the Front End engineers at Arrakis, we’re looking for someone who is hands on but also has strong product thinking skills. Although shipping is important, this role entails more than writing lines of code. You’ll be involved in discovery work and ensuring that we build user-centred solutions that can scale.

What things will look like:

• You’ll be deeply involved in crafting delightful user experiences.
• You’ll play an instrumental role in architecting our systems, working with our current FE engineer, CTO (co-founder), back end engineers, smart contract developers and product manager.
• You’ll be heavily involved in product discovery work.
• We prioritise learning and shipping. We keep processes minimal.
• You won’t burn time in pointless meetings. We run a planning call on Mondays and do demos on Fridays. We have ad hoc working sessions and do daily async written updates.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in React and Next.js ecosystems
• Hands on experience with Web3 technologies (wagmi, viem, Rainbowkit)
• Extensive experience with ReactQuery for efficient data fetching and state management
• Advanced knowledge of Typescript, including complex type definitions and best practices
• Expertise in modern CSS frameworks, particularly Tailwind CSS
• Demonstrated experience in monorepo architecture and management
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience implementing robust pipelines

Technologies we use and teach:

• React.js, Vue.js, Web3 Tooling, Typescript, GraphQl, NodeJS

Benefits

Join a small yet mighty team of industry veterans focused on revolutionizing crypto market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido. You’ll work fully remotely with members spanning Zug, London, Paris, New York, Berlin, and San Francisco. Arrakis is backed by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• SPICE token package
• Remote work
• Join amazing quarterly in-person offsites all over the world

The liquidity must flow…