Staff Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Privy, a company focused on user privacy and ownership, as a technical leader in frontend SDK development. You will own and drive the development of frontend SDKs, building interfaces, handling bundling and releases, ensuring performance and slimness, and owning architecture for challenging technical problems. You'll work closely with designers, focusing on React and Javascript SDKs while influencing other SDKs. Privy is part of Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform, offering opportunities to impact the global economy. This role requires significant experience in Javascript, React, and building production systems at scale. The ideal candidate will have experience in API-based businesses, payments, fintech, or crypto.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience
• Deep knowledge of Javascript and React, experience with Next.js is a plus
• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• An understanding of modern web development best practices
• Experience writing delightful developer documentation

Responsibilities

• Own and drive frontend SDK development at Privy
• Build interfaces to feel stack-native and easier to iterate on
• Work on how we bundle and release SDKs
• Make our SDKs performant and slim
• Own architecture for deeply challenging technical problems, like token management, storage, iframes, popups, and data management across platforms, with a focus on our core React and Javascript SDKs, but can influence and teach learnings across our numerous SDKs
• Work closely with a designer to iterate on a product

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference for experience in an API-based business and in payments, fintech, or crypto
• Written open-source developer tooling
• Published about your work (code, presentations, papers, blog posts, etc.)
• Past experience working closely with Design teams in authentication, security, or in web3