Senior Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Backend Development • $210,000 PA - $232,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Uniswap Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build financial products. Responsibilities include writing high-quality code, collaborating with engineers and product managers, providing technical leadership, and driving strategic technical initiatives. The role involves managing projects end-to-end and building large-scale production systems. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of software engineering experience and a strong understanding of cloud architectures. They should be able to build systems from scratch and stay updated with modern software development practices.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Excellent coding skills and cloud architecture understanding
  • Manage projects from requirements to release
  • Design and maintain large-scale production systems
  • Build systems from the ground up
  • Keep up with modern software development practices
  • Mentored junior engineers
Good to have:
  • Has previously been a Technical Lead
  • Prior experience with time-series based monitoring systems
  • Degree in computer science
  • Experience with Typescript
  • Experience with AWS
  • Love for unicorns :)
Perks:
  • Company-paid medical, dental, & vision
  • 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
  • Daily lunches at NY headquarters

Job Details

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.
 
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.

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 have:

  • 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 :) 

Minimum full-time salary of $210,000-$232,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including equity, tokens, and benefits, dependent on the position type.

Uniswap Labs' Full-Time employee benefits include 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 and daily lunches at NY headquarters (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).

Uniswap Labs is committed to diversity in our workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category. In addition, Uniswap Labs participates in E-Verify. You can view the E-Verify poster here and the Right to Work poster here

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About The Company

The Uniswap Labs team is building products to unlock value through universal exchange. We envision a future where digital economies flourish, and markets are transparent, global, and equitable.Our products – the Uniswap Interface, the Uniswap Mobile App, and the Uniswap Extension – are powered by the Uniswap Protocol.  The protocol is the largest onchain marketplace, with billions of dollars in weekly volume across thousands of tokens on Ethereum and 8+ additional chains.

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