Job description
About Axiom
Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive. Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.
About the Role
- Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend
- Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product
- Build interfaces that stay fast under a constant stream of live market data
- Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality
- Debug production issues across the browser, the network, and the backend
- Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable
- Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship
Minimum Qualifications
- Deep React and TypeScript experience
- Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
- A track record of shipping fast, reliable, polished products
- Sharp product judgment and an eye for detail
- Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Frontend performance work: render cost, memory, bundle size, and jank
- Real-time data over WebSockets, including high-frequency updates and backpressure
- State management at scale (we use Jotai and TanStack Query)
- Charting, virtualized lists, or other data-dense interfaces
- Debugging production issues with logs, metrics, traces, and browser tooling
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.
Nice to have
- Experience with frontend performance work, including render cost and memory optimization.
- Familiarity with real-time data handling over WebSockets.
- Experience with state management tools like Jotai and TanStack Query.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend.
- Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product.
- Build interfaces that stay fast under a constant stream of live market data.
- Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality.
- Debug production issues across the browser, the network, and the backend.
- Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable.
- Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship.
Focus areas
- Retail Trading
- Onchain Trading
Required skills
- React(must have)
Develop and maintain user interfaces that are responsive and performant, ensuring a seamless experience under high data loads.
- JavaScript & TypeScript(must have)
Utilize TypeScript to enhance code quality and maintainability, ensuring robust type checking and reducing runtime errors.
- WebSocket(nice to have)
Implement real-time data handling using WebSockets to manage high-frequency updates efficiently.
- Redux(nice to have)
Manage application state effectively at scale, using tools like Jotai and TanStack Query.
- Performance Optimization(nice to have)
Analyze and improve frontend performance metrics such as render cost, memory usage, and bundle size.