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Staff Backend Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Staff, 10+ years

📍 Location: New York, US

💸 Salary: 240000.0 - 270000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Cryptocurrency/Blockchain

🏢 Company: Uniswap Labs

⏳ Experience: 10+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSGraphQLLeadershipSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsGo

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.
Responsibilities:
  • Drive end to end execution of technical projects, from ideation and design to deployment.
  • Design and build resilient, large-scale systems 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.
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