Senior Backend Engineer

Uniswap Labs is a core contributor to the Uniswap Protocol, the world's largest DEX, with over $4 trillion in volume across 17 chains. It builds products that help millions access the protocol, including the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and Trading API. Uniswap Labs is also the primary technical provider for Unichain, a DeFi-native Ethereum Layer 2 built to be the home for liquidity across chains.

We're looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of financial products. This role has the option to be partially or fully remote.

Responsibilities

Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.

Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.

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.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering experience.

Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.

Consistently manage projects comprehensively, from gathering requirements and designing to debugging, testing, release management, and operational monitoring.

Design, build, and maintain large-scale production systems on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.

Ability to build systems from the ground up in a 0→1 fashion.

Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development and Web3, and shape the tech stack as new systems and services are built.

Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Nice to have: Prior experience as a Technical Lead. Experience with time-series based monitoring/observability systems. Degree in computer science. Experience with TypeScript. Experience with AWS.

Benefits: Company-paid medical, dental, & vision, Equinox Fitness partnership, 401(k) with 4% employer match, $1,500 annual education stipend, unlimited PTO, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, home office setup stipend, daily lunches at NY HQ, tokens eligibility.

Qualifications

Senior Backend Engineer, 6+ years experience, Backend engineering, Cloud architecture, Algorithms, Debugging, Large-scale production systems, High availability, 0-to-1 systems, Release management, Operational monitoring, Technical leadership, Mentorship, Web3, TypeScript, AWS, Time-series monitoring, Observability, Code review, Cross-functional collaboration, Project management, Software development best practices, Hybrid, Remote option, New York