Frontend Application Engineer
The Opportunity
As a Frontend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing and building the user interfaces that power our trading platform. From creating elegant, high-performance UI in React to collaborating closely with our news team, you’ll help shape products that enable our traders and researchers to move fast and operate at their best.
You’ll thrive in this role if you’re a resourceful builder who loves solving complex challenges and turning ideas into intuitive, high-impact interfaces. You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, and you move fluidly between starting bold new projects and refining existing ones. You’re excited by the future of crypto and trading, supercharge your workflows with LLM tools, and care deeply about both speed and quality. If you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to help shape the next phase of our platform, we’d love to work with you.
Responsibilities
- Design and build world-class UI for the next phase of our trading platform, enabling our team to do their best work
- Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
- Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates.
- Contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
- Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.
- Keeping on top of the latest technologies and trends in the frontend and UI development.
About you
- You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems.
- You are as excited by starting a project as completing, maintaining, and continually optimizing it.
- You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time.
- You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
Preferred experience
- 4-6 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS. Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
- Demonstrated experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications.
- UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq.
- Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby or project work).
- Bonus if you have Terraform or API experience, or trading experience.
About Nascent
Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve backed 100+ early-stage teams that we believe can change markets and expand what’s possible. At Nascent, we combine that venture + market pedigree with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue: experiments that ship fast, are evaluated rigorously, and move P&L. We focus on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time.
Our Team & Culture
We’re an interdisciplinary team of engineers, quants, and operators who treat skill-building like a sport. The culture is competition + curiosity: push to win, share learnings, and iterate publicly through red-teams, internal games, and post-mortems. Autonomy isn’t a perk — it’s how we ship. Day-to-day you’ll be in 2-pizza squads with end-to-end ownership, maker calendars, and a Decision SLA of <24 hours. We prefer guardrails over ceremony and measure success by repeatable edges and measurable outcomes.
Principles that drive our team & work
- Compete to win
- Explore, experiment, play
- Always be building
- Seek and speak truth
- Own your shit.
What We Offer
- Day-0 keys to models, data, and compute; you start experimenting from day one.
- Competitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance.
- Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.
- Hardware & home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision), life insurance.
- 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave + supported return to work.
- Retirement matching, open vacation policy, flexible hours.
- On-call compensation, strong SRE/runbook culture, and time for focused work.
- A paved road from prototype → CI/CD → production telemetry and evaluation.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diverse perspectives.
