UI Engineer / Frontend Engineer

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Our Team:

Parasol is building the future of the participatory internet. Our mission is to help businesses worldwide onboard the next billion people onto web3 to unlock the new internet economy.

We are a team of creatives 🧠 and system tinkerers 🧩 that are driving innovation at the intersection of technology and entertainment. We are industry experts who have invented, built and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people around the world. We enable developers and enterprises to build next-generation blockchain-enabled applications, launch modern networks for financial institutions and game economies and secure the ownership of their digital assets.

Your Role:

As a UI Engineer at Parasol, you will play a critical role in defining the product direction for the company. As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. You will use your expertise to craft visually stunning UI for web3 enabled applications. You will also have the opportunity to build foundational engineering solutions that will help the company ship better, faster and more reliable software. Ideal candidates will have a passion for design and user experience. If you are obsessed with polish and performance and doing work that makes you proud, this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement pixel perfect interfaces in a React codebase

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to develop new features for the platform

• Partner with our Product and Design teams to define the best UX for the tools we’re building

• Ensure a focus on coding standards and code quality with a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery 

• Contribute to team culture as an early team member

• Share and present ideas & concepts effectively across remote teams

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience architecting, developing, and testing client-side code, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups

• Experience with modern web tooling and frameworks (such as TypeScript, React, Emotion, Apollo, Storybook, and Webpack)

• You love prototyping and exploring new interactions

• Master in JavaScript syntax, and in front end essentials such as HTML, and CSS.

• Proficiency with Node.js and at least one other server side language such as Python, Ruby, Java or Golang

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

• Previous experience working closely with designers, building flexible, composable libraries and components

Nice to have:

• Experience working with any web3 and/or blockchain related projects

• Visual portfolio of your work is a huge plus!

Our Commitment to Equality

At Parasol, as we are dedicated to building the future of the participatory internet and helping businesses around the world onboard the next billion people onto web3, we also firmly believe in growing with intention and ensuring that our teams reflect the diversity of the world around us. We strive to create a workplace that is inclusive and where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Our leadership principles prioritize psychological safety, empathy, and human connection. This not only helps us create better products and have a better work environment, but it also benefits our bottom line and aligns with our values.

Parasol provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetics, marital or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Parasol complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.