Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

Uniswap
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Backend Engineer sought to design, build, and maintain the shared services powering Uniswap’s ecosystem. You’ll lead technical initiatives, review code, and improve system reliability in a cloud-focused environment, collaborating across pods to scale and secure production systems for DeFi infrastructure.

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Uniswap
Uniswap
1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

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Job Summary

Backend Engineer sought to design, build, and maintain the shared services powering Uniswap’s ecosystem. You’ll lead technical initiatives, review code, and improve system reliability in a cloud-focused environment, collaborating across pods to scale and secure production systems for DeFi infrastructure.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain backend systems that support all shared services at Uniswap Labs.
  • •Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
  • •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.
  • •Improve developer productivity and system reliability through automation and best practices.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEducation StipendGym MembershipParental LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure.
  • •Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, or Rust.
  • •Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of AWS cloud constructs and architecture, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.
  • •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, in a 0→1 fashion.
Experience:6+ yearsBlockchainDefi
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:TypeScriptGoRustAWSPulumiInfrastructure-as-codeDistributed-systemsDeveloper tooling

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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