Senior Backend Engineer

Uniswap Labs

$180K — $226K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Excellent coding skills with a deep understanding of cloud architectures and algorithms
  • Proficient in project management from requirement gathering to operational monitoring
  • Skilled in building and maintaining large-scale cloud production systems
  • Ability to create systems from the ground up
  • Interest in modern software development practices and Web3
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers

Responsibilities

  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and review peers' code.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform requirements into executable products.
  • Provide guidance on architectural and coding decisions to peers.
  • Drive strategic technical initiatives impacting the entire engineering organization.

Benefits

  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
  • Partnership with Equinox Fitness for wellness offerings
  • 401(k) plan with 4% employer contribution
  • Annual $1,500 education stipend
  • Unlimited and encouraged time off
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Home office setup stipend for remote employees
  • Daily lunches provided at NYC headquarters
Full Job Description
Were 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 00 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 Citys 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).

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