Frontend Engineer

As a frontend engineer at Privy, you will take on significant responsibilities in Privy’s product, design, and infrastructure. The role emphasizes the connection between engineering and product, valuing intuitive interfaces, simplicity, and rapid iteration to build products that users love. Responsibilities include designing user-friendly interfaces for complex systems, collaborating closely with Product and Design teams, implementing end-to-end product features driven by user needs, architecting SDKs, upgrading tooling, and advocating for usability and interface coherence across teams and products.

Must Have

• Deep knowledge of Javascript and React
• Experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
• Prior experience working closely with a designer
• Understanding of modern web development best practices
• Experience writing delightful developer documentation

Good to Have

• Experience with Next.js
• Written open-source developer tooling
• Published about work (code, presentations, blog posts)
• Experience with design teams in authentication, security, or web3

Perks & Benefits

• Offers Equity

As a frontend engineer at Privy, you will take on large areas of ownership in Privy’s product, design, 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.

What you'll do

• Design intuitive interfaces to break down complex systems and turn them into delightful developer tooling

• Work closely with our Product and Design teams

• Design and implement end-to-end product features driven by user needs

• Architect entirely new SDKs and build tooling upgrades along the way

• Advocate for usability and interface coherence across our teams and products

What we're looking for

• Deep knowledge of Javascript and React, experience with Next.js is a plus

• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale

• Prior experience working closely with a designer to iterate on a product

• An understanding of modern web development best practices

• Experience writing delightful developer documentation

Bonus points if you have...

• Written open-source developer tooling

• Published about your work (code, presentations, papers, blog posts, etc.)

• Past experience working closely with Design teams in authentication, security, or in web3

Engineering at Privy

Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.

Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.