Staff Frontend Engineer, Privy

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. We build simple, flexible developer tooling that make it easy to build products that put users first. By leveraging modern cryptography, we shift the status quo around digital ownership and protect the accounts and assets of millions of users.

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 empower their users.

Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

What you’ll do

As a technical leader, You will own and drive frontend SDK development at Privy, building interfaces to feel stack-native and easier to iterate on, work on how we bundle and release SDKs, make our SDKs performant and slim. You'll also own architecture for deeply challenging technical problems, like token management, storage, iframes, popups, and data management across platforms, with a focus on our core React and Javascript SDKs, but can influence and teach learnings across our numerous SDKs.

Minimum requirements

• 8+ years of experience.
• 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

Preferred qualifications

• Strong preference for experience in an API-based business and in payments, fintech, or crypto.
• 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

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $224,000 - $336,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.