Senior Product Engineer
Across Protocol
Location
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
Who is Risk Labs?
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team responsible for building and growing the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.
What is UMA?
UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain.
Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real-world data.
Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.
What is Across?
Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO.
Purpose: Across fulfills crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, accessible, and efficient.
Vision: Intents are the standard in cross-chain interoperability, and they are settled by Across.
The Role
We’re hiring a high-agency Senior Product Engineer who can decide what to build—and then build it. You'll take full ownership of a significant slice of our user-facing experience: shaping product hypotheses, running experiments, collaborating with design, and writing high-quality frontend code.
You’ll also provide light leadership (e.g. leading a small pod, sprint management), while championing high standards in code quality and UX.
This role is perfect for someone who identifies as a senior frontend engineer with a product mindset, someone who’s just as comfortable owning KPIs as they are shipping clean React code.
Responsibilities
End-to-end product ownership: Frame problems, propose solutions, scope experiments, implement features, measure outcomes, and iterate (or sunset) accordingly.
Frontend engineering leadership: Write reliable, maintainable, well-tested code. Drive product enhancements, migrations, and ongoing refactors to keep the codebase healthy.
Experimentation & analytics: Set up and run A/B tests or feature flag experiments. Define success metrics, instrument tracking, and interpret results to drive product decisions.
Quality advocacy: Raise the bar for code quality, reliability, and developer experience. Push for sustainable velocity and challenge unrealistic timelines when needed.
Project & people management: Coordinate cross-functional work, manage scope and timelines, and mentor or lead a small frontend pod.
Design partnership: Collaborate with designers to shape UX flows and micro-interactions. Bring polish and product “taste” to the final product.
AI-enabled productivity: Use AI tools to accelerate delivery without compromising quality. Suggest and evaluate new tools or frameworks when beneficial.
Requirements
Senior-level frontend expertise: At least 4 years of industry experience, with a strong focus on React.
Product thinking & intuition: Proven ability to define problems, prioritize solutions, and own product KPIs end-to-end. You bring strong opinions but are open to new information.
User-centric approach: You analyze user behavior, talk to users, form hypotheses, and iterate quickly based on outcomes.
Experimentation fluency: You’ve run A/B tests, prototyped rapidly, measured results, and made confident decisions to ship, pivot, or kill features.
Leadership & ownership: Experience mentoring engineers and/or leading projects or teams.
Excellent communication: Clear, concise, and collaborative in both written and verbal communication.
Autonomy: You’re self-motivated, accountable, and capable of generating high-impact work independently.
Preferred Experience With:
React (strongly preferred)
Viem
Ethers.js
TypeScript
Next.js and Vercel
Solidity / EVM (nice to have)
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $150,000–$200,000 USD
Equity/token options: Participate in voting rewards and long-term upside
Payment in stablecoins or fiat
Remote-first culture: Work from wherever you're happiest
Flexible vacation and family leave policies
Professional development: Support for training and growth
Team offsites: At least two per year
Our Values
We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.
We value openness, honesty, and directness.
We value integrity.
We value iterative learning.
We value taking smart risks.
We value creating an environment where everyone does their best work.
Why Do We Love Working at Risk Labs?
We’re aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and deeply motivated to make a meaningful impact. Our team is kind, driven, and ambitious—both personally and professionally.
We’re building products we believe in, constantly experimenting and evolving. Whether you’re family-focused or nomadic, we support flexible lifestyles that help you do your best work.
UMA is a decentralized truth machine for Web3. We’re tackling exciting technical challenges with a solid foundation and bold roadmap.
Across is pioneering intents-based settlement and seamless interoperability in DeFi. We’ve grown into a market leader—and we’re just getting started.
Our investors include Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, and Dragonfly.
You’ll never be bored at Risk Labs.
A Note on Diversity
Studies show that women and people of color often hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply anyway—we value curiosity, potential, and passion.
Risk Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability status.
Interested? We’d love to hear from you.
Apply now and help us build the future of DeFi.