We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer who operates across the full picture - someone who deeply understands how great web interfaces are built and how they perform, works autonomously, and translates that knowledge into exceptional web products and design systems.
Financial products are complex. Our users range from first-timers to power users, and the challenge of making that experience clear, fast, and trustworthy is one we take seriously. At this level, you're not just executing - you're bringing product intuition to the work, identifying where things break down, and making calls that shape the direction of what we build.
How you can make an impact:
- Work autonomously across our web products, building high-quality UI with a strong point of view on how it should feel, function, and perform
- Own and evolve complex, reusable components within the Aave design system - setting the standard for quality and consistency
- Set the bar for frontend performance, from data loading, fetching and caching patterns through to server rendering and streaming
- Bring product-level thinking to everything you work on - understanding user needs, business context, and technical constraints, whilst balancing them well
- Collaborate with our talented designers, engineers, and product leads to bring clarity to ambiguous problems
Help raise the bar for the team through the quality of your work and the way you approach problems
Let's connect if you have:
- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design and architecture
- Deep experience with frontend performance engineering - measuring it, diagnosing it, and fixing it
- Strong command of Next.js patterns for data loading, fetching and caching, and experience handling server rendering and streaming data to the frontend
- Deep experience with component-driven design systems and component design patterns, and building for consistency at scale
- The product sense to work without a detailed brief - you can identify what needs to be solved, not just how to solve it
- A demonstrated ability to take complex UX problems - information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, edge cases - and make them feel resolved and clear
Nice to haves:
- An understanding of backend data handling
- A feel for animation best practices when data is updating, and how that plays out in re-renders across a UI
- Curiosity about web3 and DeFi is a plus; you don't need to be an expert, but genuine interest in the space goes a long way
- Curiosity about AI and its use in product engineering and daily workflows
Skills Required
- Strong proficiency in React
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Strong proficiency in CSS
- Strong proficiency in system design and architecture
- Deep experience with frontend performance engineering, including measuring, diagnosing, and resolving performance issues
- Strong command of Next.js patterns for data loading, fetching, and caching
- Experience with server rendering and streaming data to the frontend
- Deep experience with component-driven design systems and component design patterns
- Ability to work independently without a detailed brief and identify product problems to solve
- Ability to simplify complex UX problems, including information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, and edge cases
- Understanding of backend data handling
- Knowledge of animation best practices for updating data and UI re-renders
- Curiosity about web3 and decentralized finance
- Curiosity about artificial intelligence and its use in product engineering
What We Do
Aave Labs is the original author and key contributor of the Aave Protocol and a software technology company founded by Stani Kulechov. The team builds blockchain-based products that power decentralized finance, including the Aave Protocol, the Aave-native stablecoin GHO, and Horizon, an institutional platform for borrowing against tokenized real-world assets. Aave is DeFi’s largest and most trusted lending protocol, where users can earn, borrow, save, and swap alongside millions of others worldwide.
