Lead Frontend Engineer

Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer (Charting & Data Visualisation)

Hydromancer · Remote Europe · Up to EUR 160k

About Hydromancer

Hydromancer is the leading data provider for Hyperliquid, the 24/7 on-chain exchange that Bloomberg covered for weekend oil pricing and pre-IPO SpaceX and OpenAI perps. Their feed runs 2x faster than Hyperliquid's own, powers 30+ trading apps and $600M+ in daily volume, and the company is profitable at two years in with no VC behind them.

The product is a data layer: raw on-chain data cleaned, deduplicated, and delivered to clients via low-latency REST APIs and WebSocket streams. Clients use it to power trading terminals, market maker tooling, and analytics products.

The next step is owning the visualization layer too.

The role

Clients already take Hydromancer data and build their own charts. This hire builds the charting product that makes that unnecessary: a B2B charting library and terminal that trading platforms, market makers, and developers can embed or use out of the box.

It is a near-greenfield build. The backend data layer is handled by the existing team. This person owns the frontend: architecture, rendering decisions, component design, and everything that makes financial charts fast, smooth, and useful at scale.

You will work directly with the founders on product direction. Think less "here are the tickets" and more "here is what needs to exist."

What you will work on

• Building the core charting engine: candlesticks, order books, footprint charts, liquidations, funding rates, open interest and more
• Designing for real-time: WebSocket data arriving at high frequency and rendering it without dropping frames
• Making it fast: handling thousands of concurrent users across different hardware and connection speeds
• Making it embeddable: a library other developers can integrate cleanly, not a monolithic app
• Owning the technical decisions: rendering approach, data structures, component API design

What we are looking for

Must haves:

• Deep experience building financial or trading charting software, not just consuming a library but actually designing and building one
• Strong command of high-performance browser rendering: Canvas, WebGL, or WebGPU
• TypeScript and modern frontend architecture
• Real-time WebSocket data integration at meaningful scale
• Has shipped a charting product to production and seen what breaks when thousands of users hit it simultaneously

Strong plus:

• Experience with TradingView Charting Library, Lightweight Charts, SciChart, D3, PixiJS, or similar
• Familiarity with financial data structures: OHLCV, order books, funding rates, open interest
• Background in fintech, trading infrastructure, or crypto analytics
• Startup experience: comfortable building from scratch without a large team or established playbook
• Has led a product, not just contributed features

The setup

• Five-person engineering team, all senior
• Fully remote within Europe, Netherlands preferred
• One weekly standup, otherwise async and output-driven
• Competitive base salary with meaningful equity

Why Hydromancer

This is not a feature team role. The charting layer does not exist yet. The data underneath it is already powering $600M in daily volume and has been cited by Bloomberg. The technical problem is real, the product direction is clear, and the team is small enough that the decisions you make will be load-bearing for years.

This role is being filled exclusively by Bluebird Recruitment. Bluebird is a recruitment firm built by engineers, for engineers. We brief every candidate properly before any interview, so if you apply you will already understand the product, the team, and what good looks like before you speak to Hydromancer.