Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Uniswap Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to the development of financial products. The role involves writing high-quality code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing technical leadership. The engineer will manage projects from inception to release, design and maintain large-scale production systems, and stay updated with modern software development practices.Responsibilities include:

• Writing high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.
• Providing guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.
• Taking charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.

Requirements include:

• 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

Uniswap Labs offers:

• Equity and tokens
• 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