Frontend Engineer, Privy
- Your strategic thinking lets you architect complex abstractions and infrastructure, aligning perfectly with Privy's focus on ownership and abstractions above wallets.
- You thrive on solving hard technical problems independently, which matches the high-urgency, low-iterations environment where you ship fast and learn.
- Your natural preference for well-thought-out designs ensures you build secure, robust systems, which is critical for a product where trust is core.
- You may find the need to be 'the PM' and deeply empathize with developer users less natural, as you prefer independent strategic work over constant user feedback.
- You might struggle with the very rapid iteration cycle that prioritizes speed over deep planning, which can conflict with your desire for thorough analysis.
Who we are
About Privy
Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.
Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.
About the team
Engineering at Privy is distinguished by
- High urgency—Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly
- Product taste—Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge—you will often be "the PM."
- Security mindset—A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.
In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.
What you’ll do
As a Frontend engineer at Privy, you will take on large areas of ownership in Privy’s product, architecture, and infrastructure. Because we build a developer tool, engineering and product are inextricably connected. We value intuitive interfaces, simplicity, and rapid iteration. Above all, we are building a company together to ship products that users love.
- Design intuitive interfaces to break down complex systems and turn them into delightful developer tooling
- Build and integrate systems end-to-end across client-side and server-side APIs to enable a seamless developer experience
- Design and implement end-to-end product features driven by user needs
- Advocate for usability and interface coherence across our teams and products
- Enforce web development best practices across our entire product, collaborating with other core stakeholders
Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience
- Deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, and an application framework (Next.js, SvelteKit, etc.)
- Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- Prior experience collaborating closely with a designer to iterate on user-facing products
- An understanding of modern web development best practices
- Experience writing delightful developer documentation
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building and maintaining published JavaScript and TypeScript SDKs used by developers
- Experience with cross-domain browser challenges (iframes, popups) and client-side authentication (token management, session handling)
- Published about your work (code, presentations, papers, blog posts, etc.)
- Domain expertise in authentication, security, payments, or web3
Best personality fits for this role
Your strategic thinking lets you architect complex abstractions and infrastructure, aligning perfectly with Privy's focus on ownership and abstractions above wallets.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your analytical curiosity is a great match for tackling novel blockchain abstractions and cross-domain technical challenges.
Read the INTP career guide →Your natural leadership and drive help you take large areas of ownership and drive projects to completion efficiently.
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