Staff Backend Engineer

🕒 February 26

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Uniswap Labs

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51 - 200 employees

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Crypto • Web 3

Uniswap Labs is the team behind the Uniswap decentralized exchange and the open-source protocol, building core smart contracts, developer tooling, and user-facing applications for token swaps, liquidity provision, and other decentralized finance primitives. It maintains the Uniswap web app (app. uniswap. org), develops protocol upgrades, and supports ecosystem growth across Ethereum and other blockchains, focusing on crypto protocol engineering, developer UX, and decentralized finance infrastructure.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Prior work with time-series based monitoring and observability systems (Nice to Have) • Knowledge of TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, and AWS (Nice to Have) • A degree in Computer Science or a related field (Nice to Have) • A love for unicorns (Nice to Have)

🏖️ Benefits

• company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents • wellness offerings including a partnership with Equinox Fitness Clubs • 401(k) with 4% employer contribution • annual $1,500 education stipend • unlimited and encouraged time off • up to 16 weeks paid parental leave • home office setup stipend for remote employees • daily lunches at NY headquarters (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility)