Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

The Uniswap Protocol, the leading decentralized trading and automated market making protocol on Ethereum, is seeking a passionate and driven Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to the development of cutting-edge financial products as part of the Uniswap Labs team. As a core member of our highly impactful team based in SoHo, New York City, you may have the option to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Write and review high-quality, thoroughly tested code.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to transform requirements into exceptional products, taking charge of the end-to-end execution.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.
• Drive strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods, exerting a significant impact on the entire engineering organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in coding with a deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and proficient debugging skills.
• Consistently manage projects, covering everything from gathering requirements and designing to debugging, testing, release management, and operational monitoring.
• Design, build, and maintain a large-scale cloud-based production system, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.
• Ability to build systems from scratch, taking projects from 0→1.
• Desire to stay updated on modern best practices in software development and Web3, actively influencing our tech stack while building new systems and services.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Nice to have:

• Prior experience as a Technical Lead.
• Previous exposure to time-series based monitoring/observability systems.
• Degree in computer science.
• Proficiency in Typescript.
• Familiarity with AWS.
• Passion for unicorns.

Uniswap Labs offers a minimum full-time salary of $180,000-$220,000 annually, adhering to New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full-time employees are eligible for additional compensation elements, including equity, tokens, and benefits based on the position type.

Employee benefits at Uniswap Labs include unlimited and encouraged time off, 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, participation in a 401(k) plan, a yearly education stipend of $1,500, up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a home office setup stipend for remote workers, and daily lunches at our NY headquarters. All benefits are subject to applicable taxes and eligibility criteria.

Uniswap Labs is committed to providing equal opportunity employment, without discrimination based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, gender (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected category. We value and celebrate diversity in our workplace.