Staff Frontend Engineer, OpenSea
$190-345k
+ Equity
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Be an early applicant
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-345k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- This role is perfect for someone who is detail-oriented, design-savvy, and passionate about creating incredibly snappy products both on web and mobile web
- Mastery in either React, Typescript or JavaScript, with a keen understanding of layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
- Proficiency in Next.js, Tailwind, GraphQL, and Web3 libraries like Wagmi/Viem
- Demonstrated experience in optimizing front-end performance and familiarity with browser APIs
- An eye for detail and design, with a proven track record of delivering aesthetically pleasing and polished products
- Experience or a strong interest in blockchain technology, with a deep curiosity and enthusiasm for its potential
- Strong customer empathy and a critical thinker regarding the impact of features on users and the community
- Experience in large-scale, consumer-facing front-end projects and a demonstrable reputation in the open-source community, including public contributions to front-end technologies
What the job involves
- As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the launch of OS 2.0, with a key focus on performance, polish, and innovation
- You will spearhead major initiatives scaling our web platform and improving performance to cater to a global audience of NFT collectors, creators, and pro users
- Contribute to and elevate the 2.0 re-architecture and rewrite initiatives to ensure robust, scalable frontend solutions
- Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that support complex web and mobile applications
- Proactively identify and address web performance bottlenecks
- Implement features and user interfaces of the OpenSea web platform, ensuring high standards of quality and performance
- Collaborate with the product and design team to shape the vision and roadmap
- Define and execute long-term technical strategies, contributing to daily technical decisions
- Provide technical mentorship and foster a culture of excellence within the team
Our take
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for NFTs or uniquely identifiable digital items. These items are authenticated with blockchain and are part of a new internet economy that consists of digital products representing art, game characters, domain names, and event tickets.
The OpenSea platform allows users to both purchase NFTs or list digital items for sale. The platform initially encountered speed issues when NFT trading boomed due to the limitations of the Ethereum blockchain technology it was using. However, the company has transitioned to a new blockchain system, Polygon, which has mitigated the problem.
In the wake of the FTX collapse the NFT world has been shaken up, and new competitors have arisen to take advantage of the disruption. One such rival, Blur, overtook OpenSea's market lead in 2023. This has led to OpenSea changing its policies and fee structures to be more favourable to creators in a bid to retake its crown. It remains to be seen whether Blur and other rivals will be able to keep up the pressure, but it's clear that OpenSea will need to innovate if it wants to remain at the head of the market.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $427.3m
Company benefits
- Paid family leave
- Health insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Flexible hours
- Workshops & conferences
- Travel & company retreats
Company values
- Trust comes first
- Dive deep
- Build an ocean, not an aquarium
- Take the helm
- Iron sharpens iron
- High quality, high velocity
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
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Leadership
Devin Finzer
(CEO & Co-Founder)Started their career as a Pinterest Software Engineer, before leaving after almost 2 years to co-found Iris Labs and Claimdog. They left their Engineering Manager role at Credit Karma in December 2017 to co-found OpenSea.
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