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Brief #70714Updated 23 AUG 2026AUSTINYcSOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Frontend Engineer

Axiom gives developers the power to gain instant, actionable insights on all their machine data in the most efficient way.

Location
Austin
Company size
10–1,000
Posted
Today
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Frontend Engineer · Axiom

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Job title
Frontend Engineer
Job location
Austin
Job listing URL
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/axiom/jobs/GNTewkz-frontend-engineer
Job description
**About Axiom** Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive. Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products. **About the Role** - Set technical direction for Axiom's frontend - Ship user-facing features end to end, from concept to launch, with design and product - Build interfaces that stay fast under a constant stream of live market data - Own performance, responsiveness, reliability, and interaction quality - Debug production issues across the browser, the network, and the backend - Evolve the frontend architecture while keeping it simple and maintainable - Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship **Minimum Qualifications** - Deep React and TypeScript experience - Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals - A track record of shipping fast, reliable, polished products - Sharp product judgment and an eye for detail - Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment **Preferred Qualifications** - Frontend performance work: render cost, memory, bundle size, and jank - Real-time data over WebSockets, including high-frequency updates and backpressure - State management at scale (we use Jotai and TanStack Query) - Charting, virtualized lists, or other data-dense interfaces - Debugging production issues with logs, metrics, traces, and browser tooling We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification. **Compensation** Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD
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Axiom headquarters

New York City, NY

Company size

10–1,000 employees

Founded

2016

Total raised

$88,549,936

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Funding rounds

  • Series Unknown$15M
  • Series A$20M
  • Series Unknown$18.5M
  • Seed$4M
  • Pre Seed$3M
  • Series Unknown$28M