Silo Finance is hiring a

Web3 Front-end Engineer

About the Role 

You are looking to join a fast-moving, ambitious team building innovative lending markets and other DeFi products. You are a self-starter who can build significant pieces of a large code base independently, but you also enjoy working collaboratively in a team and welcome feedback. This is a builder's role for someone who wants to write code and is serious about software engineering craftsmanship. An expert in front-end development with React, Typescript, and TailwindCSS and have senior-level experience growing and managing a code base for a medium to large web application with at least a moderate level of traffic (5000+ users a day). 

Responsibilities 

● Work under the direction and task approval of the Front End Lead 

● Professionally engineer components in a self-directed manner (collaborating with other team members as necessary) with a high degree of craftsmanship that integrates harmoniously with existing components and architecture 

● Demonstrate commitment and ownership to the team, supporting other team members to implement, test, maintain, fix, and review approaches and PRs. 

● Improve overall team and code base quality by improving engineering practices, standards, and tool automation Requirements. 

● Several years of experience as a professional front-end engineer on production web applications. 

● Expert-level React and TypeScript. 

● Understanding of React best practices, optimizations, and profiling. 

● Previous professional experience with a major state library. 

● Understand application design with functional components. 

● Strong understanding and experience with TailwindCSS, including the more advanced features and approaches. 

● CI, Git, Linting, Prettie, and other code quality tools. 

● Experienced with translating designs into pixel-perfect web interfaces. 

● Analytical thinker who is open-minded and good at presenting solution tradeoffs in a team setting. 

● Team player who is willing and able to support team members and pick up tasks in the project's best interest.

Nice To Have 

● Understanding of major Ethereum application development considerations and some exposure to DeFi. 

● Ethereum-based Dapp development experience 

● Nextjs experience 

● React Query experience 

● GraphQL experience 

● Some experience with nodejs based scripts and applications 

● Smart contract exposure and related tools (Hardhat, Foundry) 

● CI and Git workflow 

● API development, Redis, relational databases 

● Testing React components (sustainably) 

● Integration testing with Playwrite (preferred) or Cypress 

● Exposure to UX and high-quality user experiences 

● Translating Figma designs 

About Silo Finance 

Silo is a decentralized, risk-isolating lending protocol that brings secure lending markets to all token assets. We are a distributed team working to disrupt the decentralized lending market. We are close to launching our v2 Protocol. 

Silo is backed by a large community of top builders and enthusiasts in the blockchain.