Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
Uniswap Labs builds products that help millions of people access DeFi simply and securely ‒ from the Uniswap Web App and Wallet to crypto infrastructure like the Uniswap Trading API, and Unichain. Uniswap Labs also contributes to the development of the Uniswap Protocol, which has processed over $2.9 trillion in volume across thousands of tokens on Ethereum and 12+ other chains. When you join Uniswap, you become part of a team that's reshaping the way value flows on the internet. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of financial products. We are headquartered in SoHo in New York City, and this role has the option to be partially or fully remote.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.
- Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring.
- Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.
- Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion.
- Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services.
- Mentored junior engineers
Nice To Haves
- Has previously been a Technical Lead
- Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
- Degree in computer science
- Experience with Typescript
- Experience with AWS
- Love for unicorns :)
Responsibilities
- Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.
- Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.
- Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.
Benefits
- company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
- gym subsidy
- 401(k) with 4% employer contribution
- annual $1,500 education stipend
- unlimited and encouraged time off
- up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- home office setup stipend for remote employees
- daily lunches at NY headquarters
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
