About the Company

SALT is the pioneer of crypto-backed lending and offers crypto-focused financial services for individuals and businesses. Our mission is to build products that increase access to financial opportunities and give people more control over their ability to generate wealth long term. Committed to fostering adoption of blockchain technology, we’re working to bridge cryptocurrency with traditional finance. With an emphasis on security and customer service, we provide the technology, infrastructure, and tools that make it easy for crypto holders, businesses, banks, and governments across the globe to participate in the blockchain economy. SALT operates a blockchain-based platform that facilitates the issuance of consumer and commercial asset-backed loans secured with cryptocurrency and provides asset management services. The platform is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salt Blockchain Inc. For more information, please visit saltlending.com.

SALT is a remote first organization with a dynamic workforce. SALT offers medical, dental and vision health insurance with 100% paid premiums for employees and their eligible dependents, generous PTO, a 401(k) with company match, company equity, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, an employee perks program, a remote work expenses stipend, a home office set up payment, a charitable matching gifts program and an engaged culture with a wonderful team! If you enjoy a fast-paced, progressive, hard-working environment, SALT may be the place for you.

About the Position

The Software Engineering team at SALT has an opportunity for a Frontend Software Engineer. This position will work remotely.   

 Primary Responsibilities:

• Deliver clean and efficient code to support and maintain the automation and scaling of our business using TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Collaborate closely with the team to build new features and applications.
• Write automated tests and leverage type checkers for maximal reliability.
• Collaborate closely on cross-functional teams of designers, developers, and product managers to build new features and maintain existing applications.
• Work in an ever evolving micro-service architecture.
• Consistently document development decisions and processes.
• Integrate with new APIs, including first and third parties.

 Required Candidate Experience:

• Domain knowledge and experience working with React and state management libraries.
• Experience shipping high-quality products from start to finish.
• Well-versed in Typescript and Javascript fundamentals.
• Experience with version control in Git and merging of code via Github.
• Experience integrating with REST APIs and backend services.
• Knowledge of semantic HTML and styling with CSS (Sass).
• Willingness to learn about SALT’s stack and contribute to backend Node services.
• Ability and willingness to write tests (Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library).
• Self-starting personality .
• High-bandwidth communicator in a fast-paced, remote environment.
• Enthusiasm to collaborate with other Devs and QA to build features, diagnose and quickly resolve bugs.

Preferred Candidate Experience (Nice-to-haves):

• Server side knowledge and experience working in backend Node services.
• Experience with Type systems like Typescript.
• UX / UI design experience.
• Open source software contributor.
• Basic understanding of Bitcoin and Ethereum: general concepts, scripting, smart contracts.

Job Type:

Full-time position

Location:

Works remotely from anywhere in the U.S.