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Our protocols: the Lightning Network, Taproot Assets, and L402, are used by developers all around the world and are increasingly the rails that AI agents use to pay for services, stream value, and transact autonomously. We are looking for a full-stack engineer to help us build Terminal Web, the primary application node operators use to manage liquidity, channels, balances, swaps, and the rest of their Lightning operations.\nLocation: Fully remote, with a preference for US time zones.\nThe Role\nThis is a product engineering role centered on Terminal Web. You will take features from idea to production: understanding what node operators need, designing the user flow, integrating with Lightning services, building the frontend, shaping the API layer, writing tests, and sweating the details until the feature is ready to ship. You are the person we point at a product problem and trust to come back with something that works.\nTerminal Web is a TypeScript application built with Next.js, React, MobX, and Emotion. It uses server-side rendering, browser persistence, LNC-based RPCs to self-hosted litd nodes, and REST APIs to Lightning Labs services. The work spans UI, state management, API integration, data modeling, performance, reliability, and testing. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving across that stack without waiting for a narrow handoff.\nWe use AI-native development tools heavily. Experience using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools as part of your daily engineering workflow is something we are looking for directly, not a nice-to-have.\nWhat You'll Do\nShip end-to-end features in Terminal Web that help users operate Lightning nodes, manage liquidity, monitor activity, and interact with Lightning Labs products through a polished browser-based application.\nBuild across the full stack of a modern TypeScript product: Next.js SSR, React components, MobX stores and view models, Emotion styling, IndexedDB-backed data services, LNC integrations, REST APIs, and the glue code that makes complex node operations feel simple.\nOwn integrations with Lightning infrastructure by working with LND, litd, Lightning Node Connect, Loop, Pool, Taproot Assets, and related services. You will translate protocol and API capabilities into clear product experiences.\nWrite production-quality tests with Jest and Playwright, and use those tests to move quickly without breaking the workflows node operators depend on.\nWork autonomously with minimal direction. Understand company priorities, identify where you can have the most impact, collaborate with product and engineering when needed, and execute from rough problem statements through launch.\nUse AI development tools as leverage for exploration, implementation, testing, refactoring, and documentation while maintaining the engineering judgment needed to ship secure, reliable software.\nWhat We're Looking For\nYou build and ship production-quality software. You have a portfolio, work history, or set of projects that demonstrate this, we'd love to see them.\n\nYou have strong TypeScript and React experience, and you are comfortable with modern full-stack web application architecture.\n\nYou have experience with server-side rendering, API clients, browser storage, state management, and the practical tradeoffs of building complex web apps for real users.\n\nYou use AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar as part of your normal workflow, not as a novelty.\n\nYou can take ambiguous product requirements and turn them into working software independently, while communicating clearly along the way.\n\nYou have strong engineering practices: automated testing, code review, documentation, debugging, and a bias toward simple, maintainable designs.\n\nYou care about product quality. You do not just wire up APIs, you think about the user, the edge cases, the loading states, and the failure modes.\n\nYou are excited about Bitcoin, Lightning, and the mission of making Bitcoin cheap, fast, and simple for everyone.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience building wallet, payments, fintech, infrastructure, or developer tooling products.\n\nFamiliarity with Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, LND, litd, LNC, Taproot Assets, Loop, Pool, or related protocols.\n\nExperience working with WebAssembly-backed browser integrations.\n\nExperience with MobX, Emotion, Dexie, Bootstrap, visx, Jest, or Playwright.\n\nGo experience or comfort reading backend services and protobuf-defined APIs.\n\nExperience at a small, high-growth company where wearing many hats was the norm.\n\nCheck out our github repos at:\nhttps://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal\nhttps://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-node-connect\nhttps://github.com/lightninglabs/lnc-web\nhttps://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd\nHow to Apply\nWe strongly encourage you to include links to projects, demos, writing, products, or anything else that shows how you build. 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