Staff Backend Engineer
Leads end-to-end technical projects, designs and builds resilient large-scale backend systems focused on reliability and scalability, provides thought leadership, and mentors engineers. Requires 10+ years experience in production systems, cloud architecture, and distributed systems.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Drive end to end execution of technical projects, from ideation and design to deployment.
- Design and build resilient, large-scale systems from the ground up with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
- Provide thought leadership and guide peers in navigating complex architectural and coding decisions.
- Champion best practices and technical excellence across the engineering organization.
- Spearhead strategic technical initiatives that impact multiple engineering pods and deliver organization-wide improvements.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-level systems.
- Experience as a Technical Lead or in a similar leadership capacity.
- Exceptional coding skills, with expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and algorithms.
- Proven ability to independently lead projects, including requirement gathering, system design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
- A track record of mentoring and guiding engineers to achieve their potential.
- A 0→1 mindset with the ability to build systems and processes from scratch.
- Deep interest in modern development practices and a passion for shaping the future of crypto technology.
Nice to Have
- Prior work with time-series based monitoring and observability systems.
- Knowledge of TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, and AWS.
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Compensation
Minimum full-time salary of $207,000-$259,000. Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including tokens, and benefits.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, Algorithms, TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, AWS, Observability Systems, Large-Scale Systems, System Design
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