Solana Foundation - Lead Engineer, Frontier Traders

• Own the technical direction and delivery of Frontier Traders end to end, with particular ownership of the trader-facing product and user experience • Build polished, responsive interfaces for sophisticated traders, turning complex market, portfolio, rewards, and trading data into products that feel simple and intuitive • Ship realtime product experiences including portfolio views, activity feeds, leaderboards, campaign dashboards, tier progression, and other data-heavy interfaces that remain fast and accurate under market load • Take new products and features from idea through architecture, implementation, and launch, making thoughtful decisions across the frontend, APIs, backend services, and underlying data • Build the product experiences behind campaigns, points, prize pools, VIP tiers, and rebates, ensuring users can clearly understand their activity, performance, rewards, and progression • Work with Solana onchain data and indexing infrastructure to ensure the product accurately represents trading activity across spot and perpetuals venues throughout the ecosystem • Own integrations with ecosystem partners across DEXs, perps venues, launchpads, wallets, and data providers, and turn those integrations into cohesive user experiences • Work directly with traders, firms, and market makers to understand how they use Frontier, identify opportunities, and turn their feedback into shipped product • Set the engineering bar for the product across frontend architecture, performance, code quality, testing, observability, and reliability • Make pragmatic build-versus-integrate decisions that allow Frontier to move quickly while maintaining the quality expected by a sophisticated trading audience • Partner closely with design, product, and the Foundation's Trading and Growth teams to shape both what gets built and how it should work • You Ideally Have: • A track record of building and shipping user-facing products end to end, with clear personal ownership from idea through launch and iteration • Deep expertise in modern frontend engineering, particularly TypeScript/JavaScript and frameworks such as React/Next.js, with experience building complex, data-rich applications • Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals and the ability to move comfortably between frontend applications, APIs, backend services, databases, and data infrastructure when the product requires it • Experience building realtime, data-intensive interfaces where performance, accuracy, state management, and usability all matter • Strong product instincts and a demonstrated ability to make thoughtful UX decisions rather than simply implement predetermined designs • Experience with data pipelines, indexing, or realtime systems, and enough depth to understand how data moves from its source through to the product experience • Working knowledge of Solana, including accounts, transactions, program interactions, and how to reliably index and surface onchain activity • Familiarity with DeFi market structure, including spot and perpetuals venues, AMMs and order books, maker and taker dynamics, and how fees and rebates work • Comfort operating across an entire product stack and taking ownership when a problem falls outside your primary area of expertise • Comfort operating with ambiguity, limited process, and evolving priorities • Excellent communication, including the ability to work directly with demanding external users and translate their needs into thoughtful product and technical decisions