Staff Backend Engineer

Uniswap
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 240,000 - 270,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Staff Backend Engineer at Uniswap leads architectural and technical initiatives to design, build, and optimize large-scale production systems in the crypto/DeFi space. You’ll drive end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, scalability, and performance across multiple engineering pods, with a flexible remote option from New York.

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Uniswap
Uniswap
1 year ago

Staff Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Staff Backend Engineer at Uniswap leads architectural and technical initiatives to design, build, and optimize large-scale production systems in the crypto/DeFi space. You’ll drive end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, scalability, and performance across multiple engineering pods, with a flexible remote option from New York.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 240,000 - 270,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionGym Membership401kEducation StipendParental LeaveHome OfficeMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-level systems.
  • •Technical Lead or similar leadership experience.
  • •Expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and algorithms.
  • •Ability to independently lead projects from requirements gathering to deployment.
  • •Mentoring and guiding engineers to reach their potential.
Experience:10+ yearsCryptoDeFiBlockchain
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:TypeScriptGoGraphQLAWSDistributed systemsCloud architecture

Company Brief

Uniswap
Develops Uniswap, a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol for permissionless token swaps on Ethereum and other blockchains. Enables liquidity provision, decentralized trading, and on-chain composability for DeFi applications and users.
Industry: Blockchain & Web3
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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