🕒 4 days ago
Lead frontend engineering work that turns Figma designs into polished, accessible React experiences, strengthens shared components and frontend standards, and improves usability, performance, and reliability.
Staff Frontend Engineer
📅 Sep 16
ReactTypeScriptCSSNext.js
📜 Description
- Build and improve web products autonomously, with attention to interface quality, usability, and performance.
- Own and evolve reusable components in the Aave design system, setting standards for consistency and quality.
- Set frontend performance practices across data loading, fetching, caching, server rendering, and streaming.
- Apply product judgment to balance user needs, business context, and technical constraints.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product leads to clarify ambiguous problems.
- Raise the team's standards through strong work and problem-solving.
🛠️ Requirements
- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design and architecture
- Deep experience with frontend performance engineering - measuring it, diagnosing it, and fixing it
- Strong command of Next.js patterns for data loading, fetching and caching, and experience handling server rendering and streaming data to the frontend
- Deep experience with component-driven design systems and component design patterns, and building for consistency at scale
- The product sense to work without a detailed brief - you can identify what needs to be solved, not just how to solve it
- A demonstrated ability to take complex UX problems - information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, edge cases - and make them feel resolved and clear
- An understanding of backend data handling
- A feel for animation best practices when data is updating, and how that plays out in re-renders across a UI
- Curiosity about web3 and DeFi is a plus; you don't need to be an expert, but genuine interest in the space goes a long way
- Curiosity about AI and its use in product engineering and daily workflows
Full job description
About us
Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?
We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.
Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally
Our culture
We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.
We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.
We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.
About the Role
We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer who operates across the full picture - someone who deeply understands how great web interfaces are built and how they perform, works autonomously, and translates that knowledge into exceptional web products and design systems.
Financial products are complex. Our users range from first-timers to power users, and the challenge of making that experience clear, fast, and trustworthy is one we take seriously. At this level, you're not just executing - you're bringing product intuition to the work, identifying where things break down, and making calls that shape the direction of what we build.
How you can make an impact:
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