Bastion is hiring a Frontend Engineer

**About Bastion** Bastion empowers financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, generate reserve revenue, and expand their ecosystems. Our platform seamlessly combines stablecoin issuance, secure custody, and cross-border transfer orchestration — giving businesses the tools to create and scale their stablecoin networks while optimizing revenue, compliance, and control. **Overview** As a Frontend Engineer at Bastion, you'll be the architect of exceptional user experiences across our core products. You'll transform complex requirements into elegant, responsive, and accessible interfaces that define how users interact with our compliance and fintech tools — from initial onboarding to real-time workflows. This is a 0 → 1 environment perfect for engineers who thrive on ownership and hands-on collaboration. You'll drive architectural decisions, define frontend patterns, and contribute to our design system as we scale. We're looking for someone with a killer combination of visual design instinct and technical chops. A strong sense of interaction design and clean code abstractions will be crucial. We value engineers who take pride in crafting polished UIs, have a track record of end-to-end project ownership, and are motivated by building experiences users genuinely love. Fintech experience is a major plus, as is excitement about web3's potential. **Responsibilities** - Design, build, and maintain responsive, accessible, and high-performance user interfaces - Translate product and design specs into production-ready React components - Develop scalable frontend architecture and reusable component libraries - Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams - Integrate APIs (gRPC, tRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets) and manage asynchronous data flows - Optimize performance through bundling, lazy loading, and code splitting - Write robust test coverage using modern testing frameworks - Apply security best practices to prevent frontend vulnerabilities - Contribute to frontend build and CI/CD workflows - Document patterns and best practices to support team-wide maintainability **Qualifications** - 7+ years professional experience building web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React - Strong proficiency in HTML/CSS, responsive layout, and browser compatibility - Deep experience integrating with RESTful APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, and WebSocket services - Familiarity with backend technologies like Node.js, Express, and tRPC - Proficient in frontend performance optimization and tooling - Experience writing test suites with Playwright or equivalent - Understanding of web security principles and risk mitigation - Comfortable with Git workflows and modern CI/CD practices - Track record of project ownership and meaningful side projects - Preference for simplicity, speed, and avoiding over-engineering - Fintech or financial systems experience (Web3/Crypto a plus) **What We Look For** - **UI Craftsmanship & Design Sensibility**: High bar for interface quality and user experience - **Frontend Architecture Expertise**: Experience building scalable component systems - **Ownership & Autonomy**: Independently driving projects and proactively improving processes - **Attention to Detail**: Perfecting everything from animation timing to edge-case handling - **Collaborative Energy**: Working closely across teams to build shared solutions - **Fintech and/or Web3 Experience**: Background or strong curiosity about financial systems *Bastion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, and placement. Bastion participates in E-Verify to authorize eligibility of employment in the United States.* Compensation Range: $200K - $260K