Senior Backend Engineer

The role

A Senior Backend Engineer will build the next generation of financial products. This role involves writing high quality code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing technical leadership.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• 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 :)

Benefits

• 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
• daily lunches at NY headquarters

About the company

Uniswap Labs is a core contributor to the Uniswap Protocol, the world’s largest DEX. It builds products that help millions access the protocol, including the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and Trading API.