Senior Backend Engineer, Uniswap Labs
Unichain
$210-232k
+Equity
Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
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Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-232k
+Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To unlock universal ownership and exchange for everyone, starting with bringing millions of people into the emerging web 3.0 economy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of software engineering experience on EVM related chains
- Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities
- Experience building backend 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
- Experiencing mentoring junior engineers
Desirable
- Experience with working on an Optimism chain either contributing to the OP code itself or a different rollup chain
- Experience with Solidity
- Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
- Experience with Go/Typescript
- Experience with AWS
- Love for unicorns :)
What the job involves
- We're looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next chain that will be the house of liqudity and DeFi
- Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members
- Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives to ensure the reliability and scalability of the chain
- Consistently able to 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 part of the on-call rotation to guarantee the chain is running 24/7 without outages
- Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs. Help onboard new and existing members to the Unichain specifics
Our take
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has quickly emerged as a “killer app” for blockchain technology. Within the past two years or so, an ecosystem of hundreds of DeFi applications has developed on Ethereum — with use cases ranging from lending to trading to insurance — bringing permissionless access to financial services to anyone with an internet connection.
Out of these applications, Uniswap - originated by Uniswap Labs - has become the most actively used. It is the largest decentralized exchange (DEX), allowing anyone to create a market for anything, rather than relying on specific teams to be market-makers in an exchange.
Despite the behemoth size of its star asset, Uniswap Labs does not make money from Uniswap, as it is just a protocol with the 0.3% fee going to reward liquidity providers. The company instead relies on adjacent ways to drive revenue, leveraging its massive influence in the DeFi space to do so.
The company has secured impressive funding, including a 2022 Series B round which represented one of the largest raises in the DeFi sector's history. Now boasting a valuation of $1.66 billion, it intends to invest in expanding operations to bring Uniswap to “even more people across the world.”
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$165m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$11m
SERIES A
Total funding: $178.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited and encouraged time off
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
- 401(k) participation
- Annual $1,500 education stipend
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Home office setup stipend for remote employees
- Daily lunches at NY headquarters
Company HQ
Ramapo, Chestnut Ridge, NY
Articles
Leadership
Hayden Adams
(CEO)Former Engineer at Siemens.
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