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Senior Backend Engineer

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Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
180K-226K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
180K-226K Annually
Senior level
Build and maintain large-scale, highly available backend systems for financial products. Write and review tested code, collaborate cross-functionally, lead end-to-end technical execution, guide architectural decisions, drive strategic engineering initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and support system design, debugging, testing, releases, and operational monitoring.
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Uniswap Labs is a core contributor to the Uniswap Protocol, the world’s largest DEX, with over $4 trillion in volume across 17 chains. It builds products that help millions access the protocol, including the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and Trading API. Uniswap Labs is also the primary technical provider for Unichain, a DeFi-native Ethereum Layer 2 built to be the home for liquidity across 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.

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 $180,000-$226,000. 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 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, wellness offerings including a partnership with Equinox Fitness Clubs, 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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