Senior Backend Engineer | Uniswap Labs | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Uniswap Labs team is building products to unlock value through universal exchange. We envision a future where digital economies flourish, and markets are transparent, global, and equitable.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our products – the Uniswap Interface, the Uniswap Mobile App, and the Uniswap Extension – are powered by the Uniswap Protocol. The protocol is the largest onchain marketplace, with billions of dollars in weekly volume across thousands of tokens on Ethereum and 8+ additional chains.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">When you join Uniswap, you become part of a team that’s reshaping the way value flows on the internet.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of financial products.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We are headquartered in SoHo in New York City, and this role has the option to be partially or fully remote.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Requirements</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">6+ years of software engineering experience</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Mentored junior engineers</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice to have:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Has previously been a Technical Lead</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Degree in computer science</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Typescript</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with AWS</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Love for unicorns 🙂</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Minimum full-time salary of $210,000-$232,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City’s Pay Transparency Law.</em> <em>Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including equity, tokens, and benefits, dependent on the position type.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Uniswap Labs’ Full-Time employee benefits include company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents, gym subsidy, 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 and daily lunches at NY headquarters (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Uniswap Labs is committed to diversity in our workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category. In addition, Uniswap Labs participates in E-Verify. You can view the E-Verify poster <a href="https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a> and the Right to Work poster <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1133936/dl" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our products – the Uniswap Interface, the Uniswap Mobile App, and the Uniswap Extension – are powered by the Uniswap Protocol. The protocol is the largest onchain marketplace, with billions of dollars in weekly volume across thousands of tokens on Ethereum and 8+ additional chains.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">When you join Uniswap, you become part of a team that’s reshaping the way value flows on the internet.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of financial products.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We are headquartered in SoHo in New York City, and this role has the option to be partially or fully remote.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Requirements</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">6+ years of software engineering experience</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Mentored junior engineers</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice to have:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Has previously been a Technical Lead</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Degree in computer science</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Typescript</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with AWS</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Love for unicorns 🙂</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Minimum full-time salary of $210,000-$232,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City’s Pay Transparency Law.</em> <em>Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including equity, tokens, and benefits, dependent on the position type.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Uniswap Labs’ Full-Time employee benefits include company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents, gym subsidy, 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 and daily lunches at NY headquarters (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Uniswap Labs is committed to diversity in our workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category. In addition, Uniswap Labs participates in E-Verify. You can view the E-Verify poster <a href="https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a> and the Right to Work poster <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1133936/dl" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.</em></p>