Frontend Engineer

Axiom is building the first platform that lets anyone trade any asset on any chain. For our initial launch, we support Solana memecoins, Hyperliquid perpetuals, and yield. We have reached mid 8 figure ARR annualized and are looking to expand to new markets fast.

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.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD

Tech Stack: TypeScript, NextJS, Jotai, TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL, uWebsocketJS

We care a lot about the details and performance, and deploy to production multiple times per day.