Frontend Engineer

Description

• As a Frontend Engineer at Bastion, you’ll play a critical role in crafting exceptional user experiences across our core products.

• You'll lead the development of elegant, responsive, and accessible interfaces, transforming complex requirements into simple and performant UIs.

• Your work will directly shape how users interact with Bastion’s compliance and fintech tools, impacting everything from initial onboarding to real-time workflows.

• This is a 0 → 1 environment ideal for engineers who thrive on ownership, autonomy, and hands-on collaboration with designers, backend engineers, and product stakeholders.

• You'll influence architectural decisions, define frontend patterns, and contribute to our design system as we scale.

• A strong sense of visual and interaction design, paired with an instinct for clean abstractions, will be key to success in this role.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience building modern web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React

• Strong proficiency in HTML/CSS, responsive layout techniques, and browser compatibility best practices

• Deep experience integrating with RESTful APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, and WebSocket services; familiarity with backend technologies such as Node.js, Express, and tRPC for effective integration

• Proficient in frontend performance optimization and tooling (e.g. Webpack, Lighthouse, bundle analysis)

• Experience writing and maintaining test suites using Playwright or equivalent (e.g. Cypress, Jest)

• Familiarity with web security principles (XSS, CSRF, CORS) and how to mitigate common risks

• Comfortable with Git workflows, code reviews, and modern CI/CD practices

• Experience collaborating closely with designers and translating high-fidelity designs into code

• Self-starter with a track record of end-to-end project ownership or meaningful side projects

• Strong preference to keep things simple, ship fast, and avoid overengineering

• Professional experience in fintech or financial systems. Professional Web3 / Crypto experience is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules

• Unlimited paid vacation & holidays

• Several holistic and balanced life benefits such as: comprehensive health coverage, life insurance, retirement benefits, paid parental leave, tax-advantaged accounts, One Medical, Spring health, and more.

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