About Aztec At Aztec, our goal is to add privacy to Ethereum. In the current public blockchain paradigm, users and entities unknowingly broadcast data in the public, compromising privacy and security to get trustlessness. Not only are unencrypted blockchains inherently privacy-exposing, they require significant redundancy to compute and verify the legitimacy of transactions. Implementing scalable encryption in a public blockchain paradigm requires cutting-edge math and engineering. Thankfully, our team of scientists and engineers invented Plonk, the industry-standard zkSNARK, and Noir, the universal language of zero knowledge. Now, we’re building a first of its kind Layer 2 with private smart contracts. This requires new cryptographic primitives, a zero-knowledge DSL for writing contracts, a privacy-friendly execution environment, a carefully designed set of circuits that prove the validity of the chain to L1, a decentralized block-building and proving mechanism, and a top-tier user and developer experience. And it’s now time to bring it to market. We’ve raised $125 million from industry-leading investors including a16z crypto, Paradigm, Variant, Consensys, and a_capital, and we’re growing quickly.Role Overview As a Front-End Software Engineer at Aztec Labs, you’ll be at the forefront of designing and developing intuitive, high-performance user interfaces for developers and users interacting with our zkApps, wallets, and protocol tools. You will collaborate with design, cryptography, and protocol teams to ensure seamless and secure user experiences in a highly technical, fast-paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to help define the UX of privacy in Web3 and shape how users interact with next-gen decentralized systems. Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain front-end applications for zk-powered tools and dApps. Initial projects in the first months will be designing and developing the frontends for our showcase payment dApp and sequencer staking bootstrap projects, critical for our mainnet launch this year. Work closely with product managers to align UI/UX with product requirements. Work closely with engineers to integrate aztec.js into the apps and provide critical feedback. Create and translate design mockups and wireframes into pixel-perfect, responsive interfaces. Write modular, testable, and maintainable code using modern JavaScript frameworks. Contribute to UI/UX discussions and drive decisions around user experience best practices. Ensure performance, security, and scalability of all front-end applications.

Required Qualifications

3+ years of experience building production-grade front-end applications. Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React or Svelte, and HTML/CSS. A deep understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design. A focused, and minimalist approach to engineering and design, avoiding bloat, and keeping the code easy for everyone to maintain. Strong communication and collaboration skills. You will be expected to develop a deep understanding of the requirements, and can then take the initiative to meet them with minimal management. Passion for blockchain technology and a strong desire to build user-first Web3 applications.

Nice to Have

Experience working with Web3 libraries (e.g., ethers.js, viem, wagmi). Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs, privacy-preserving technologies, or blockchain protocols. Previous contributions to crypto wallets, block explorers, or dApp front-ends. Understanding of UX design principles and familiarity with Figma or design systems. Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright). Exposure to Layer 2 solutions and Ethereum development tools.

What we offer:

A highly competitive compensation package (including equity) Flexible and remote work environment based out of London 25 days holiday + bank holidays annually An opportunity to work at the cutting edge of blockchain with a world class cryptography and engineering team Aztec Labs is an equal opportunity employer and we value creativity, diversity, and intellectual curiosity. If you're passionate about leveraging your creative talents to make a real-world impact, and if you want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of digital privacy, then we would love to hear from you.

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The Opportunity

As a Frontend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing and building the user interfaces that power our trading platform. From creating elegant, high-performance UI in React to collaborating across the stack, you’ll help shape products that enable our team to move fast and operate at their best. You’ll contribute to a lean, agile development team—owning components end to end, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through creative solutions and sharp execution.

You will thrive in this role if you’re a resourceful builder who loves solving complex challenges and turning ideas into intuitive, high-impact interfaces. You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, and you move fluidly between starting bold new projects and refining existing ones. You’re excited by the future of crypto and trading, supercharge your workflows with LLM tools, and care deeply about both speed and quality. If you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to help shape the next phase of our platform, we’d love to work with you.

Responsibilities

• Design and build world-class UI for the next phase of our trading platform, enabling our team to do their best work
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
• Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance
• Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates
• Contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.

About you

• You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems.
• You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, valuing strong communication and collaboration.
• You are curious about the future of crypto, trading and the financial world as a whole.
• You love using LLM tools in your daily workflows.
• You are as excited by starting a project as completing, maintaining, and continually optimizing it.
• You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time.
• You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
• You are an avid learner and always keeping on top of the latest technologies.

Preferred experience

• 2-5 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS. Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
• Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications.
• UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq.
• Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby or project work).

About Nascent…

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth
• Own your shit.

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote and distributed working environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.