Japan Remote (Global)

MLabs is hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer

About the Role

MLabs is hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer for a high-impact role building the performance-critical trading interface where usability, correctness, and speed are the competitive edge. You will be a key architect responsible for the user-facing side of our low-latency, high-throughput trading systems, translating complex trading data into a fluid, responsive user experience.

What You'll Do

  • Work directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, driving the frontend technical and product roadmap.
  • Achieve pixel-perfect implementation of the trading interface, ensuring seamless interaction with performance-critical data feeds.
  • Design and implement frontend architectural decisions that have a direct and measurable impact on production systems.
  • Optimize frontend services using ReactJS and NextJS for maximum latency, throughput, and fault tolerance.
  • Operate close to real-time market data, ensuring the UI accurately reflects real money, volume, and risk.

What We're Looking For

  • Demonstrated experience building interfaces for trading, exchange, or financial infrastructure where data integrity and speed are non-negotiable.
  • Deep experience working on Crypto Wallets, or at the very least, a strong, fundamental understanding of crypto wallet integration, transaction signing, and blockchain interaction principles.
  • Strong systems and performance intuition, specifically related to web application optimization, rendering, and API communication.
  • High ownership and the ability to thrive in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, comfortable working long hours on hard problems.
  • Expertise in ReactJS and NextJS.
  • Must be based in Asia to align with the team's core operational hours and region.

Technical Stack

  • ReactJS
  • NextJS

Team & Environment

You will work directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, shaping the product from the ground up.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Exceptional Impact: Direct influence on the product and technical architecture from day one.
  • Executive Visibility: Direct collaboration with the CEO, COO, and founding team.
  • Exponential Growth: Opportunity to scale your career at a company experiencing triple-digit percentage weekly growth in volume.
  • Highly Competitive Package: Market-leading compensation, including a significant equity component.
  • Compensation: $40K - $60K + significant equity.

Work Mode

This role is open to candidates in Asia to align with the team's core operational hours.

At MLabs, we are committed to offering equal opportunities to all candidates. We ensure no discrimination, accessible job adverts, and provide information in accessible formats. Our goal is to foster a diverse, inclusive workplace with equal opportunities for all.

Required Skills
ReactJSNextJSTypeScriptJavaScriptFrontend ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationWeb VitalsTestingCI/CDSystem DesignMentoringTeam LeadershipCode ReviewAgile Methodologies
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About company
MLabs

A venture-backed financial technology firm dedicated to transforming the global movement of money through stablecoin infrastructure. Building a full-service platform designed to make issuing, managing, and integrating digital dollars seamless for developers, fintechs, and institutional partners.

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Category frontend
Posted 3 months ago