Frontend Engineer (Tokenized Deposit Business)

Job Overview

1. Background

We aim to build the infrastructure for the era of on-chain finance by bringing AI-native, programmable payment and treasury management platforms into real-world use.

We are developing use cases leveraging blockchain technology, including tokenized deposits and stablecoins. As the business expands, frontend development is becoming increasingly important in shaping the overall user experience.

To strengthen the frontend of our products and further improve UI/UX quality, we are looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our team.

2. Mission

Your mission is to develop a high-quality frontend that supports the user experience of next-generation on-chain financial infrastructure, enabling applications that are secure, intuitive, and scalable.

While the Tech Lead will make final decisions regarding design principles and architecture, you will be expected to actively contribute to technology selection and continuous improvement initiatives, working together with the team to shape the product’s UI/UX.

3. Key Responsibilities

You will primarily be responsible for frontend development for our next-generation financial systems business, including the following:

Frontend Development

• Develop frontend applications primarily using TypeScript and React
• Design and implement UI components
• Develop application logic, including state management, routing, and data fetching
• Integrate frontend applications with backend systems through APIs
• Implement unit, integration, and E2E tests to ensure product quality

Performance and Quality Improvement

• Improve web performance, including rendering and bundle optimization
• Continuously improve accessibility and usability
• Design secure UI architectures and data flows

Product Development and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and Product Managers to translate requirements into effective user interfaces
• Participate in specification discussions, requirements definition, and prototyping
• Improve design systems and component libraries
• Propose improvements to development processes and frontend architecture

Scope of Changes to Responsibilities:

Duties may be changed in accordance with the company’s business needs.

4. Challenges We Aim to Solve Through Our Business

We aim to eliminate the inefficiencies and fragmentation that still exist within the financial industry.

Today, financial institutions and corporations manage transactions using separate ledgers and systems, which often results in data inconsistencies, duplicated reconciliation processes, and manual verification work, significantly reducing productivity.

By leveraging distributed technologies such as blockchain and interoperable verification technologies, we aim to create mechanisms that allow multiple parties to share trusted data in real time, thereby eliminating these structural inefficiencies.

In addition, we are working to establish the regulatory, technological, and operational foundations required to support next-generation digital money infrastructure, including tokenized deposits and stablecoins. Our goal is to build financial infrastructure that seamlessly connects real-world economic activity with on-chain environments.

Ultimately, we envision a more open and programmable financial system that can be naturally embedded into a wide range of industries and services, creating a more productive economy with significantly less friction.

5. Why This Role Is Exciting

This position offers a rare opportunity to contribute simultaneously to both the technical core of the product and meaningful business impact, combining the challenges of 0→1 product creation and 1→100 scaling.

• Design the user experience of next-generation finance through UI/UX

  You will have the opportunity to create entirely new user experiences in the emerging field of on-chain finance, unconstrained by traditional financial systems.

• Shape the face of a product during the 0→1 phase

  As a core member of a new business initiative, you will be involved from the early stages in building components, UX frameworks, and frontend foundations.

• Gain hands-on experience with modern frontend technologies

  You will work in an environment that actively adopts modern technologies such as React, tRPC, Vite, Chakra UI, and Storybook.

• Work closely with backend and blockchain engineering teams

  Through close collaboration across technical domains, you can deepen your overall engineering capabilities and develop a broader full-stack perspective.

6. Services You Will Work On

You will participate in launching new services that support on-chain financial infrastructure, including tokenized deposits and smart contract-based payment solutions.

7. Technology Stack and Development Environment

Frontend

TypeScript / Vite / Biome / ESLint / Vitest / Storybook / MSW / Sentry, etc.

Backend

Go

Infrastructure

AWS (CDK / Lambda / Aurora / Kinesis, etc.)

8. Team Structure

You will work as part of a cross-functional product development team consisting of Product Managers, business planning members, Tech Leads, Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers, Blockchain Engineers, and other specialists.

9. About Datachain

Since its founding in 2018, Datachain has continued to invest in R&D as a Japan-born global deep-tech company, with the goal of creating infrastructure that becomes the de facto industry standard.

As we prepare for a future in which real-world assets (RWAs) such as equities, bonds, and real estate are increasingly represented as digital assets, we are accelerating the development of next-generation financial infrastructure.

We are hiring for this position to strengthen the frontend engineering capabilities that will play a central role in building this infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have all of the following experience as an engineer.

Frontend Development

• Experience developing web applications using TypeScript
• Hands-on development experience with modern frameworks such as React, Vue, or Svelte
• Experience designing and implementing UI components
• Experience integrating with external APIs such as REST APIs or GraphQL
• Experience implementing at least one type of testing: unit, integration, or E2E

Development Process

• Experience working in a team-based development environment using Git
• Experience developing with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience creating technical documentation

Language

• Business-level Japanese proficiency equivalent to JLPT N1

Preferred Qualifications

Development Environment and Technology Stack

• Production development experience using React and TypeScript
• Experience building design systems or UI component libraries
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization
• Experience designing frontend systems with security considerations
• Knowledge of the financial industry or blockchain technologies
• Knowledge of animation and interactive UI implementation

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong interest in user experience and delivering meaningful product value
• Proactive in improving UI/UX and development efficiency
• Able to collaborate effectively with team members and drive problem-solving initiatives
• Comfortable working through uncertainty and exploring the best solutions through hands-on execution
• Open to learning and continuously adopting new technologies and approaches