Staff Backend Engineer, Uniswap Labs
$240-270k
Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
Be an early applicant
Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-270k
201-500 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
- 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
Desirable
- Prior work with time-series based monitoring and observability systems
- Knowledge of TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, and AWS
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field
- A love for unicorns
What the job involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture and strategy of our systems. This is a unique opportunity to lead technical initiatives, drive innovation, and ensure Uniswap remains at the forefront of crypto
- 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
Our take
Decentralised 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 decentralised 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
11% employee growth in 12 months
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
Leadership
Hayden Adams
(Founder & CEO)Former Engineer at Siemens.
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