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Senior Backend Engineer

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.

180k – 226kNew York, NYBackend EngineeringHybrid6+ YOE

About the role

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.

Skills

TypeScriptAWSWeb3Cloud ArchitecturesAlgorithmsObservability SystemsKubernetes

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