Figure is looking for a Staff Front-End Engineer to help shape the future of their Figure Markets web platform, focusing on building scalable, performant, and responsive user interfaces for trading, borrowing, and earning marketplaces.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in front-end engineering, ideally building complex, high-throughput applications.
- Deep expertise in modern JavaScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3; experience with TypeScript is highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of performance profiling, frontend observability, and browser rendering internals.
- Experience with crypto wallets and Web3 integrations (e.g. WalletConnect, MetaMask, Ledger).
- Familiarity with blockchain transaction flows and client-side signing (e.g., EIP-712, ethers.js, web3.js).
- Familiarity with frontend infrastructure such as monorepos, module federation, or micro-frontends.
- Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright, or Cypress.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and build high-performance React applications that power trading experiences and dashboards.
- Build reusable UI components and systems that scale across products and teams.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to define and execute on key product initiatives.
- Drive frontend performance optimization, security, and maintainability.
- Establish and uphold best practices in code quality, testing, documentation, and accessibility.
- Lead large-scale technical initiatives, proactively identify architectural challenges, and propose scalable solutions.
- Contribute to improving developer experience through tooling, CI/CD, and internal libraries.
Other
- Mentor other engineers and influence engineering culture through collaboration and technical leadership.
- Experience collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to create user-centric solutions.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving projects in a startup or high-growth company environment.
- Figure will not sponsor work visas for this position.
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
