Defi Jobs in New York, New York, United States

About Pye Finance

Pye is building Solana’s yield protocol. Pye makes it easy to stake, trade and forward sell your Solana yield. Our team is currently building a decentralized bond protocol and yield marketplace where users can participate as stakers or traders. Stakers provide inventory to the market by selling their yield upfront, while traders are able to swap the yield of popular Solana LSTs for profit.

Role overview

We're looking for a React Engineer with experience in the Solana ecosystem and a passion for building DeFi applications. As an early team member, you will be responsible for building out Pye’s core web app, optimize and fix bugs and collaborate with the design team on ui/ux. The ideal candidate is design-orientated, cares about DeFi ux and can iterate fast!

Key Responsibilities

• React Development: Translate design systems in Figma and wireframes into frontend code, considering user experience. Being able to quickly iterate on the pure visual components.
• Integrate Solana Libraries: Implement @solana/wallet-adapter-base and @solana/web3.js to wire up visual components into a functional system for users. Handling all Web3 state transitions and feedback loops (eg. toasts, notification) in a DeFi-intuitive way.
• Project Management: Manage frontend projects end-to-end, from the requirements gathering to the development testing and deployment of a project on Vercel and Next.js.
• Performance Optimization: Monitor application performance, conduct rigorous testing, and iterate on feedback to optimize for speed, efficiency, and scalability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of React development and 2 years in Web3 (EVM, SVM)
• Previous experience using state management libraries such as Zustand, react-query for crypto applications
• Strong proficiency in React libraries and frameworks (Nextjs, Tailwind, Styled Components)
• Comfortable working with APIs written in TS/Node.js or Rust, as well as familiarity with databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• You are highly motivated, self-driven, passionate about staking and DeFi
• You write clean, readable and performant code
• English language proficiency

Bonus if:

• Previous experience implementing Solana web apps
• You have worked with DeFi protocols on Solana
• You live in EST or PST timezone

Benefits:

• Competitive cash compensation + token options plans (signing bonus & performance-based)
• Fully remote, flexible working schedule
• Paid company offsites, conferences and travels
• Budget for work equipment