Lead Frontend Developer (React, TypeScript)

Job description

Relay is building the web3 messenger. We are looking for talented and motivated front-end engineers of all experience levels. Relay engineers thrive in a high-growth, high-velocity environment where success depends on the highest levels of communication, code quality, and pragmatism. Each engineer must be able to individually own a slice of the Relay codebase while also maintaining a working knowledge of others. Accordingly, Relay is looking for team members who are not only highly-skilled individual contributors but also strong collaborators and communicators. ### Technical Responsibilities - Facilitate technical growth for all members of the development team - Develop, shape, and maintain technical processes and workflows - “Set the tone” in terms of craftsmanship standards and code quality - Carefully implement critical UI components, shared functionality, and certain subsystems (like monitoring, testing, validation, etc) - Rapidly implement functional UI elements from design mocks and workflow diagrams, with an eye toward correctness and readability. - Active/thoughtful participation in discussions surrounding ticket specification, design review, etc. - Participate in active, intentional, and thorough code reviews. ### Lead Responsibilities - Actively participate in GitHub discussions, issues, and pull requests - Provide technical support and guidance in both GitHub and Discord - Participate in growing the development team ### Requirements - 5+ years building production, customer-facing React applications. - 7+ years of experience building production, customer-facing frontend applications (using React or any other frontend toolchain). - 1 year of TypeScript experience - Minimum 3 years working with any strongly typed programming language - Minimum 1 year leading or 2 years contributing to a web3-centric project - Very strong verbal and written communication skills. - Very strong understanding of idiomatic UI implementation patterns - Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript - Strong understanding of the browser programming environment (the DOM, data-fetching APIs, storage APIs, sessions, HTTP, caching, etc). - Working understanding of public key cryptography (encrypting, signing, etc) and associated user flows - Desire to work in a semi-public-facing role as an OSS maintainer