Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Trading)
- Role
- Frontend
- Experience
- Staff
- Employment
- Full-time
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Staff frontend engineer with 5+ years of software engineering experience and strong React, TypeScript, and React Native skills. Must have mobile expertise, English proficiency, and experience with trading systems.
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Required languages
Phantom is the modern money app used by tens of millions around the world. Our product combines everything people need to manage, spend, and grow their money in one simple, intuitive experience. Phantom brings all the control and flexibility of crypto-powered finance, without unnecessary complexity, into mainstream consumer finance.
By combining industry-leading security with thoughtfully designed tools, Phantom makes powerful financial tools feel approachable and easy to use. This focus on speed, control, and user experience has fueled rapid growth, with a community of 20M+ people, reaching #1 in the Google Play Store finance category, and consistently ranking as a Top 50 app across all categories, alongside some of the most recognizable consumer technology platforms in the world.
Responsibilities
We’re hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer with mobile expertise to build core trading flows across spot trading, perpetuals, and prediction markets. This role spans web, mobile, and browser extension development, requiring strong frontend expertise with fullstack ownership from concept to production.
We’re looking for someone with high agency, and a bias toward action — someone who proactively identifies opportunities, drives solutions, and ships high-quality products end-to-end. You thrive in fast-moving environments, operate comfortably in ambiguity, and take full ownership of outcomes. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and trading teams to deliver intuitive and powerful discovery experiences. If you’re excited about building in emerging markets and shaping how users discover the next generation of assets, we’d love to talk.
- Feature development: You will be owning features on our web and mobile platforms – currently the Phantom Extension, Phantom Terminal, and the mobile app.
- New initiatives and products: You will be leading initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure.
- Interfacing with users: You will be interfacing directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom – supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product.
- Team building: You will be working with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years full-time software engineering experience
- React / Typescript / React Native
- Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms
- English language proficiency
- Experience working with trading systems
Why Work with Us
We are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 7M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.
There has never been a better time to work in crypto to help shape the future of innovation with a focus around the wallet experience!
- First impressions matter: Wallets are responsible for a users first impression with crypto and onboarding new users into crypto. By ensuring that a user has a great first-time experience with crypto, we can help supercharge the growth of the entire ecosystem.
- Make crypto easier to navigate: There is no easy way for a user to discover and navigate all that crypto has to offer. Wallets have a unique opportunity to help users not only onboard to crypto but also stay retained by exploring new things to do.
- We live in a multi-chain world: We currently support Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come in the new future. We are focused on creating a unified, multi-chain crypto experience for users.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered
- Stipend for your ideal remote set-up
- Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment
- Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Weekly meal benefit
- Global off-sites
The target base salary for this role will range between $200,000 to $250,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.
We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
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What you'll do
- Build core trading flows across spot trading, perpetuals, and prediction markets
- Own features on web and mobile platforms including Phantom Extension, Phantom Terminal, and the mobile app
- Lead initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom
- Launch new complementary products or infrastructure
- Interface directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom
- Support users and collect feedback to inform product direction
- Work with the team to foster a high hiring bar
What they require
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years full-time software engineering experience
- Strong frontend expertise with fullstack ownership from concept to production
- Mobile expertise
- Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms
- Experience working with trading systems
- Comfortable in fast-moving environments and ambiguity
- High agency and bias toward action
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance medical/dental/vision 100% covered
- Stipend for remote setup
- Flexible hours
- Supportive remote environment
- Unlimited vacation
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Weekly meal benefit
- Global off-sites
Phantom https://phantom.com is the modern money app used by tens of millions around the world. Our product combines everything people need to manage, spend, and grow their money in one simple, intuitive experience. Phantom brings all the control and flexibility of crypto-powered finance, without unnecessary complexity, into mainstream consumer finance. By combining industry-leading security with thoughtfully designed tools, Phantom makes powerful financial tools feel approachable and easy to use. This focus on speed, control, and user experience has fueled rapid growth, with a community of 20M+ people, reaching #1 in the Google Play Store finance category, and consistently ranking as a Top 50 app across all categories, alongside some of the most recognizable consumer technology platforms in the world. Phantom is revolutionizing the way millions of people interact with the crypto ecosystem. Our self-custodial wallet offers a seamless, unified experience for managing accounts and tokens across Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, empowering users with a single, convenient solution. By integrating cutting-edge security features and launching innovative tools for an enhanced personalized user experience, Phantom is able to provide a next-generation, safe and easy to use self-custodial wallet for everyone. This strategy has allowed Phantom to achieve significant milestones including surpassing 15 million MAU’s, reaching #1 in the Google play store finance category, and consistently trending as a Top 50 app across all categories, right next to X, PayPal, Coinbase, and ChatGPT.