Meet Codex

The role

We are seeking an ambitious Senior Full Stack Developer, who has experience creating performant, polished and functional web applications. You will be responsible for the architecture, development, and technical maintenance of the Codex App (our user-facing node management software/dashboard UI). This is a very collaborative role, where you will work closely with a UX/UI designer and protocol team to bring the Codex Protocol to the end-user. You will own the entire technical implementation (from development and testing to deployment and maintenance) including architecting and implementing a plugin system that supports more specific Codex use cases to be built by both internal and external contributors.

Responsibilities

• You will be working on the Codex App implementation and its plugin system
• You will be responsible for writing documentation for the above-mentioned project
• You will be responsible for maintaining our open-source codebases on GitHub alongside the rest of the team
• Communicate with other team members to establish effective workflows
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and defects, and devise solutions to address and mitigate
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Provide technical leadership and management to help support the team

Qualifications

Passion and polish. You are passionate about building leading-edge and user-friendly web applications that will be used by thousands of end-user.

Autonomy and agency. You have an ownership mentality, proactively contributing to get the job done, and independently troubleshooting problems blocking paths for you or others. As a small team, you may have to solve problems that may not match your job description.

Ambition and growth. You are excited to work on open-source software, UI components, design systems, interaction design, Web APIs and have an eagerness to continue to learn and grow.

Required skills and experience

• 5+ years experience in Full Stack / Web Development
• Experience in ReactJS and Node.js (all in Typescript)
• Solid backend development experience that makes you capable of digging into a Nimlang codebase with minimal hand-holding
• Good understanding of software and database architecture
• Experience in the implementation of frontend libraries and design systems
• Proven capabilities in collaborating with designers, utilizing design hand-off tools (Figma), strong passion and focus on visual polish & interaction design, and ability to champion and advocate for ideas that help achieve better end-user experiences
• Experience working with Git, Docker
• Experience in MySQL, MongoDB, Database Architectures

Bonus points if

• You are comfortable working remotely and asynchronously
• You are familiar with the Nim programming language
• Smart contracts (Solidity) and Web3
• You have experience working for an open-source organization

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Hiring process

• Interview with Talent team
• Interview with Engineer in the Codex team
• Interview with Client & Marketplace team members
• Interview with Codex Program Manager

[The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline!]

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 50+ 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.

The Opportunity

As a Junior Front-End Developer on the Nascent team you will play a critical role in building and deploying front-end code to our trading platform. From designing high impact and scalable components to solving complex technical and design problems you will serve as an integral partner to our trading team. Working closely with our trading group and engineering team, you’ll have an opportunity to exercise creativity and technical skill in solving meaningful problems, empowering our trading team to thrive at the forefront of the crypto ecosystem.

This role is a unique skillset, requiring a blend of technical expertise, effective collaboration skills, and an understanding and appreciation of financial markets and blockchain technology. This is a high-impact team, designed to advance the strategies that make our team successful. The ideal candidate is early in their career, curious and eager to contribute to building the future global economic system.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and build the next phase of Nascent’s ecosystem, 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.
• Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates

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

Preferred experience

• 1-2 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS
• Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications

Bonus experience

• Experience and/or interest in learning Rust or other systems programming languages
• 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)

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. We’re a fully distributed team that 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
• Own your shit
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth

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
• Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home Office, co-working space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

• A strong frontend engineer with experience in React
• A proponent of user-centric development with an eye for design and user experience.
• Someone who is able to put themselves in the user’s shoes and contribute to discussions around product development. In other words, your coding abilities are complemented by a solid understanding of business models, business goals, user journeys, value propositions, and the ability to discuss product features in detail.
• Someone with outstanding communication skills.
• A software engineer with solid debugging and testing skills.
• Strong work ethic and pride in the quality of your code. 
• Enjoy working closely with others in a cross-functional team.

• An independent and profitable business that is doubling in size. 
• More than 12 years experience in designing, building, and optimising high-growth online marketplaces.
• Technically complex projects that often present unique business challenges that need solving.
• A distributed company, headquartered in London, UK, with a strong documentation and iteration culture that supports remote team members based in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucasus region.
• We take full ownership of marketplace projects in close collaboration with our clients. We’re a close-knit in-house team who love working together. We don’t outsource core functions.

• Strong fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
• Expert-level knowledge of and proven experience working with JS libraries such as  React, Redux for state management, React Query, etc.
• Expert-level knowledge of and proven experience working with component-based architecture (React components, Storybook, Design system, Lerna, NPM/Yarn).
• Previous experience working with Micro Frontend 
• Proficient with modern testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress)
• Strong debugging and testing skills.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• Experience in backend development with Node.js (Express or Nestjs) would be a great bonus.
• Experience in designing UX/UI journeys would be a great bonus.

• ReactJS and React Native
• NextJs 
• Bootstrap
• NestJS
• MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch
• AWS
• Figma
• Storybook
• Lerna / Bit.dev
• Strapi Headless CMS