Frontend Engineer at Whetstone Research (Global)
Whetstone Research· Global·
Role details
Job description
About the role
This role is going to be working on Pure Markets.
Responsibilities
- Implementing - new UI features and improved designs
- Testing - automate UI testing alongside a release pipeline
- Shipping - overseeing successful production releases
What we're looking for
Hopefully you're obsessed with implementing high quality user experiences and interfaces. Ideally you're product minded and have a deep amount of respect for users. You love the blockchain industry and everything that entails, including an understanding of why non-custodial UX is what it is. You enjoy quickly testing out and iterating on a product until finding something that converts to real, tangible outcomes. You work well as part of a team, know when to ask for help, and lean on your colleagues in a remote environment to ensure we are continuously releasing improvements. You have experience delivering highly reliable and modern interfaces to millions of users.
About Whetstone Research
Whetstone Research is focused on designing and building new protocols that accelerate the future of onchain markets. The team is less than 10 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, Primitive, Aztec, and numerous others. We are working on Doppler, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping Protocol built on the EVM, used by Zora and others. Learn more about Whetstone on our website or read our blog. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.
Why work at Whetstone Research
- Culture highlights: Deeply technical, research-driven environment focused on cutting-edge DeFi/blockchain problems. The team is small (~12 people), offering high ownership and impact.
- Remote/hybrid/office policy: Fully remote-first, with team members distributed across 7 US locations. Employees work remotely, with no central office.
- Notable perks or engineering culture:
- Work with a founding team from Uniswap, Primitive, and Aztec – top-tier DeFi protocols.
- Opportunity to shape the future of onchain markets from the ground up.
- Open-source culture – all core work is public, encouraging transparency and collaboration.
- Roles include both engineering (Frontend, Backend) and non-engineering (Marketing, Institutional Growth), catering to diverse skill sets.