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title: 'Frontend Engineer at August'
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# Frontend Engineer at August

- **Company:** August
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-12-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/augustdigital/am9icG9zdDpKFJaJbStLaJc6eJr8YlOM

## Job description

August is building institutional onchain infrastructure. Our first vertical is on-chain prime brokerage targeted at crypto-native institutions to enable an order of magnitude better capital efficiency. Our second vertical is [Upshift](https://upshift.finance), a vaults-as-a-service platform. We have raised a $16m between Seed and Series A from leading crypto and fintech investors. Our product is live with over $550m TVL and $45bn volume processed in 2025.

We are on the lookout for a skilled Frontend Engineer with a deep understanding of TypeScript, React, and direct interaction with smart contracts and blockchain transaction payloads. In this role, you will be instrumental in crafting user interfaces that facilitate seamless integrations between the August platform and third party dApps. This role involves close collaboration with backend engineers and researchers to develop and launch institutional-grade products that boost capital efficiency, improve access to credit, and offer real-time risk monitoring.

## Responsibilities

- Architect and implement sophisticated frontend components using TypeScript and React, interfacing directly with smart contracts and wallet providers.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to create coherent, user-friendly interfaces for digital asset management and on-chain finance operations.
- Write clean, maintainable code adhering to best practices in TypeScript and React development.
- Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability and performance of frontend applications.
- Participate in the continuous integration and deployment pipeline, enhancing the frontend aspect of the development process.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in frontend software development with a strong focus on TypeScript and React.
- Proven experience in building applications that interact directly with smart contracts, experience with Wallet connect SDK is a plus.
- Familiarity with modern frontend development tools and practices, including responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/deployment processes.
- Knowledge of blockchain, digital assets, and traditional finance systems is a plus.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment.

If you are passionate about on-chain finance and want to work with an elite team of engineers and researchers to build the next generation of digital asset infrastructure, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity at August.

## About August

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: August Digital builds institutional infrastructure for on-chain capital markets, operating a crypto prime brokerage and a DeFi vault platform called Upshift.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (as Fractal Network)
- **Founders**: Aya Kantorovich and Alexandre Elkrief (Co-CEOs)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Infrastructure, Financial Technology (FinTech)
- Target customers: B2B — Institutional clients including trading desks, funds, protocols, DAOs, and treasuries (prime brokerage); Fintechs, neobanks, and asset managers (Upshift vault infrastructure)
- Mission or purpose statement: To expand the digital economy by providing institutional-grade, capital-efficient technology for assets on-chain, replacing opaque counterparty risk with transparent, programmable infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[August Prime Brokerage]**: Institutional-grade on-chain prime brokerage. Provides secure smart-contract accounts with pricing and risk engines that allow institutions to borrow, lend, trade, and settle spot, derivatives, and DeFi positions from a single, auditable on-chain account.
- **[Upshift (Vaults-as-a-Service)]**: A DeFi vault infrastructure platform for fintechs and asset managers. Allows clients to launch custom yield vaults (multi-protocol yield, card settlement financing, RWAs) across 30+ chains and 80+ protocols, with built-in institutional risk controls. Offers an SDK for embedding vaults into existing products.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$16M**; Annual Revenue of **$1.2M** (per LinkedIn); Cumulative trading volume of **$45B**; Monthly volume of **~$7B**; Upshift peak TVL of **~$500M** with **$50B** in trading volume processed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Dragonfly Ventures (led Series A), Hack VC (led Seed), SCB Limited, 6th Man Ventures, Foresight Ventures, FinTech Collective, Robot Ventures, Maven11. Named partners include Ethena, SwissBorg, Agora, Monarq, TAC, K3, and Senatora.
- **Growth Signals**: Raised a $10M Series A in March 2025; launched Upshift in April 2025 with 40+ vaults launched since; processes ~$7B in monthly volume with 150+ institutional clients; workforce distributed across 7 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **On-Chain Transparency**: Replaces opaque, trust-based prime brokerage with real-time, on-chain risk measurement, programmatic collateral management, and automated liquidations.
- **CeFi + DeFi in One Architecture**: The only infrastructure that routes capital through both DeFi protocols and CeFi venues in a single, auditable system.
- **Institutional-Grade Risk Engine**: Proprietary policy engine enforcing chain, protocol, token, and function-level restrictions on every transaction.
- **Production-Ready Infrastructure**: Vault contracts, risk controls, NAV accounting, fee logic, and withdrawal processing are pre-built, allowing clients to launch in weeks, not quarters.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand Upshift**: Scale the vaults-as-a-service platform to onboard more fintechs, neobanks, and asset managers, offering yield products across lending, basis, market-making, and RWAs.
- **Deepen Institutional Prime Brokerage**: Continue to serve the 150+ institutional clients and grow volume by connecting more protocols and CeFi venues.
- **Cross-Chain & Multi-Protocol**: Maintain leadership in supporting 30+ chains and 80+ protocols, making yield accessible from diverse sources.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact, Small Team**: A senior, lean team of ~16 people where engineers own critical product surfaces end-to-end and directly shape the product and company direction.
- **Cutting-Edge Technology**: Work at the intersection of traditional finance and DeFi, with smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and real-time financial systems processing real money 24/7.
- **AI-First Engineering Culture**: The company actively integrates AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor) into the workflow and provides a token budget for engineers to boost productivity.
- **Culture & Perks**: Hybrid culture (East Coast time zone preferred, NYC a plus), unlimited PTO, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) plan, and multiple team offsites and retreats per year.
- **Direct Client Exposure**: Engineers have the chance to work directly with business partners and clients.

## Sources
1. [upshift.finance](https://www.upshift.finance/)
2. [LinkedIn - August Digital](https://linkedin.com/company/fractal-network)
3. [Built In - Full Stack Engineer Job Posting](https://builtin.com/job/full-stack-engineer/9324235)
4. [Yespresso - August Digital Profile](https://yespresso.io/august-digital)
5. [Gem - August Digital Careers](https://jobs.gem.com/augustdigital)

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