About the role

What will you do at Axiom (YC W25)?

About Axiom

Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.

Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.

About the Role

Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend

Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product

Build interfaces that stay fast under a constant stream of live market data

Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality

Debug production issues across the browser, the network, and the backend

Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable

Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship

Minimum Qualifications

Deep React and TypeScript experience
Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
A track record of shipping fast, reliable, polished products
Sharp product judgment and an eye for detail
Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications

Frontend performance work: render cost, memory, bundle size, and jank
Real-time data over WebSockets, including high-frequency updates and backpressure
State management at scale (we use Jotai and TanStack Query)
Charting, virtualized lists, or other data-dense interfaces
Debugging production issues with logs, metrics, traces, and browser tooling
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD

Which skills does this role require?

ReactTypeScriptFrontend ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationData VisualizationSoftware EngineeringProduct DevelopmentFrontend EngineerRetail TradingOnchainReliabilityArchitectureTracingVirtualizationEngineeringSoftware Development

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