# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Uniswap](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/uniswap)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $226k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, AWS, Web3, Cloud Architectures, Algorithms, Observability Systems, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-03-18

> Builds and maintains large-scale cloud-based backend systems for DeFi products at Uniswap Labs, driving strategic initiatives, providing technical leadership, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 6+ years experience with strong coding, architecture, and Web3 knowledge.

## Job Description

## 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

## Compensation
Minimum full-time salary of $180,000-$226,000. Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including tokens, and benefits.

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