Frontend Engineer
Perena
WorldwideremotePosted 6 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 3+ years professional frontend engineering
- Key stack: Next.js (App Router) and TypeScript
- Notable requirement: Experience with Solana wallet adapters/RPC calls or ability to ramp fast
- Notable backers: Solana co-founders, Citadel, Jane Street, Binance Labs
Role overview
Perena is a decentralized financial protocol on Solana offering USD STAR (USD*), a fully collateralized, yield-bearing digital dollar. The protocol earns yield from diversified sources including delta-neutral strategies, secured borrow-lend market positions, and real-world assets, with the long-term goal of building a full suite of on-chain stablebanking products to expand access to real yield across crypto and traditional finance.
Responsibilities
- Build and own the frontend applications that bring Perena's financial products to life, from minting and redeeming USD* to portfolio dashboards, yield analytics, and on-chain transaction flows, using Next.js and TypeScript as the core stack
- Design and implement a scalable component library and design system that ensures consistency, accessibility, and reusability across all Perena surfaces, including public-facing apps, internal operations tools, and documentation
- Integrate directly with on-chain data and wallet infrastructure, building seamless interactions with Solana programs, wallet adapters, and real-time blockchain state to create intuitive user experiences around complex DeFi primitives
- Collaborate closely with protocol engineers, designers, and product to translate sophisticated financial concepts (yield strategies, collateral flows, risk metrics) into clear, trustworthy interfaces that inspire user confidence
- Own frontend performance, reliability, and observability, including optimizing load times, implementing error boundaries, building monitoring and analytics pipelines, and ensuring the app performs under real-world conditions across devices and regions
- Drive data-driven iteration by instrumenting user flows, analyzing engagement and conversion metrics, and shipping improvements that make Perena's products easier and more compelling to use
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional frontend engineering experience with a strong emphasis on Next.js (App Router) and TypeScript in production environments
- Deep understanding of React patterns, server components, client/server rendering strategies, caching, and data fetching in modern Next.js applications
- Experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems (e.g., using Tailwind CSS, Radix, Shadcn, or similar) with a strong eye for craft and detail
- Familiarity with wallet integration and on-chain data in a frontend context (Solana wallet adapters, RPC calls, transaction signing) or clear ability to ramp fast
- Track record shipping user-facing products in fast-paced environments where you owned features end-to-end, from design handoff through deployment and iteration
- Strong instinct for UX in high-stakes financial contexts: you think about trust, clarity, error states, and edge cases before they become problems
- Experience with frontend testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E) and CI/CD pipelines to maintain quality at speed
- Comfort working with designers in Figma, translating visual specs into pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible implementations
Nice to have
- Familiarity with DeFi or fintech products is a strong signal, but not required. What matters is you can learn fast and reason about how users interact with money
- Earlier in your career? Apply anyway if you can show real ownership of shipped products, clean code, and a sharp eye for design and usability.
Benefits
- We own our future — we trust each other to take initiative. Voices are heard and outcomes matter.
- We treat our work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise.
- We think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure.
- We work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community
Additional details
- Perena is founded by a team of builders from the Solana ecosystem with backgrounds in TradFi and DeFi.
- Backed by Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal
- Backed by investors from Citadel, Jane Street, IMC, and Susquehanna
- Backed by Borderless Capital, Binance Labs, Primitive Ventures, Maelstrom, Anagram, Breed, and others
- Perena was a sponsor of the Colosseum Hackathon Stablecoin Track
- Community spans over 20,000 developers, users, and builders
- Originally posted on Himalayas