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title: 'Principal Engineer, Frontend at Trojan Trading'
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# Principal Engineer, Frontend at Trojan Trading

- **Company:** Trojan Trading
- **Location:** European Time Zones
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/trojan-trading/am9icG9zdDrc8Flx7smfR5vXM2LbROnf

## Job description

## About Trojan Trading

Trojan Trading is at the forefront of crypto trading technology. Trojan Trading is a non-custodial trading and data platform. It is a unified base of operations, a place where users retain custody of their funds, data is live and accurate, execution is nearly instant and accurately priced, charting is simple and powerful and where every market, no matter how new, is accessible. We've chosen to keep our team small, and bring together only the most exceptional talent in crypto.

Why Join Us? At Trojan, we’re pushing the boundaries of on-chain trading technology. Joining our team offers you the chance to work on products that already serve a large and active user base, collaborating with top-tier engineers in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Working at Trojan Trading means having fast paced releases with your work being live in the hands of tens of thousands of users as soon as it’s complete.

## Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer with deep, broad experience around building highly performant, real-time, interactive frontends for trading-focused web apps. You will play a key role and be expected to be a subject matter expert in this area for Trojan Trading. Our Founders and team will lean heavily on your past experience as a First-or-Founding Engineering to propel Trojan Trading as we expand our offerings and grow our user base.

## Key Responsibilities

- Architect, Build, and Maintain: Create, develop, and maintain a responsive and user-centric web app with React/NextJS, TypeScript, and Jotai.
- Own and Take Initiative: Own new features, improve existing features, and take initiative in the iterative development process of Trojan Trading products
- Optimize for Speed: Implement best practices to maintain the app’s fast and responsive performance, especially on mobile devices.
- Problem-Solve with Impact: Tackle complex challenges with effective, innovative solutions that enhance user experience.
- Champion Code Quality: Ensure clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, contributing to a sustainable development environment.
- Engage in Real-Time Features: Support the integration of real-time data and enhance user interactions for trading functionalities.

## Requirements

- Experience: Founder, First Engineer, or Lead experience at a significant, reputable DeFi project building with React/NextJS, Typescript, and Jotai
- Trading Platforms: Must have experience where you have owned and built the frontend of a real-time, highly interactive trading platform
- Self-Motivation and Autonomy: Proven ability to work independently and take initiative with a proactive mindset to push tasks forward
- Leadership Insight: Must have experience working alongside leadership and founders to make key decisions about the frontend of a trading web app including, but not limited to, tech stack, product design, and feature design.
- Technical Excellence:- Expertise in creating fast, dynamic and optimized web interfaces
- Comfort with real-time data handling and websocket management
- Innovative Thinking: Adept at identifying potential challenges or improvements and implementing effective solutions promptly
- Clear Communication: Strong ability to articulate ideas and collaborate effectively with team members
- Interest in DeFi: A genuine curiosity and understanding of cryptocurrency and trading trends
- Pride: We look for people who take deep pride and responsibility in the products they build. Crypto moves at breakneck speed, and only the most driven, fast-moving teams succeed.
- Team Collaboration: - Strong communication skills to work effectively within a cross-functional team.
- Experience working within a mid-sized engineer team.

Nice-To-Haves

- Passion or experience in on-chain trading; being a part-time trader on Solana is a plus.

## What We Offer

- Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere on your schedule.
- Challenging Projects: Solve complex problems with cutting-edge technology in the trading space.
- Impactful Role: Shape backend systems powering one of the largest trading platforms on the market and shaping the experience of tens of thousands of daily users.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a team that values innovation, efficiency, and collaboration.

## Compensation/Culture

The overall market range for roles at Trojan Trading is typically $300k - $500k annually. This market range is based on total compensation. Trojan Trading has a culture that is built upon meritocracy, high-intensity output, and personal growth.

## About Trojan Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Trojan Trading builds the fastest onchain trading tools for Solana, including a Telegram bot and a web terminal, enabling users to buy, sell, snipe, and automate crypto and memecoin trades with self-custody.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Jamaica (with remote team across 8 countries and a presence in Half Moon Bay, CA)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain services / Onchain trading infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2C – retail crypto traders, from beginners to professional traders
- **Mission**: To bring the centralized exchange trading experience, perfected, to the onchain trading community while maintaining full self-custody of assets.

## Products & Services
- **[Trojan Telegram Bot](https://trojan.com/)**: The flagship product – a high-speed trading bot for Solana offering market orders, limit/DCA orders, multi-wallet support, copy trading, token audits, real-time alerts, and comprehensive onchain data. Designed for speed and self-custody via Privy wallets.
- **[Trojan Terminal](https://trojan.com/)**: A web-based trading terminal launched in January 2026. Delivers the same low-latency, real-time trading experience as the Telegram bot, plus perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid.
- **Self-Custody Wallets**: Built on Privy’s infrastructure, ensuring users always control their private keys.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Processed over **$30 billion in trading volume** and attracted **3+ million users** since launch.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privy (wallet infrastructure), Hyperliquid (perpetuals), and various Solana ecosystem projects. No institutional investors publicly named.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trojan Terminal crossed **100,000 users in its first week** (Jan 2026) with 1.5M+ video views.
  - Headcount grew **60% YoY** (now 13–20 employees, distributed across 8 countries).
  - Active hiring across engineering, design, compliance, and marketing roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed**: Architecture built from the ground up for sub-millisecond execution – consistently the fastest on Solana.
- **Self-custody**: Users never surrender control of their assets, unlike centralized exchange alternatives.
- **Comprehensive data**: Access to years of onchain history, real-time alerts, wallet tracking, and token audits.
- **User experience**: Designed for both beginners and pros, with intuitive interfaces and advanced automation tools.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the Trojan Terminal web platform and adding new asset classes (e.g., perpetuals).
- Expanding the engineering team to maintain speed and reliability as user base grows.
- Deepening integration with the Solana ecosystem and supporting decentralized finance (DeFi) growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, lean, agile team with a fast-paced, high-impact environment. Remote-first with team members in 8 countries.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote – no mandatory office.
- **Engineering culture**: Building high-performance, real-time systems at the cutting edge of crypto; opportunities to own significant components.
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed publicly, but employer rating on Built In is **4.3/5** (Compensation 3.3, Culture 4.0, Career 4.0). 24/7 support team reflects a commitment to uptime and reliability.
- **Hiring signals**: Consistent postings for Senior Frontend, Backend, Principal Frontend, Design, Technical Project Manager, Compliance, and Marketing roles.

## Sources
1. [trojan.com](https://trojan.com/)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trojan-trading)
3. [linkedin.com](https://vg.linkedin.com/company/trojan)
4. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/trojan-trading)
5. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/trojan-trading/am9icG9zdDrlVxRNcQf-WW79oAiq-cUR)

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