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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.\nWhen you join Uniswap, you become part of a team that's reshaping the way value flows on the internet.\nWe’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of financial products.\nResponsibilities\nWrite high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.\n\nCollaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.\n\nProvide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.\n\nTake charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.\n\nRequirements\n6+ years of software engineering experience\n\nExcellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.\n\nConsistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.\n\nBe able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion.\n\nDesire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services.\n\nMentored junior engineers\n\nNice to have:\nHas previously been a Technical Lead\n\nPrior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems\n\nDegree in computer science\n\nExperience with Typescript\n\nExperience with AWS\n\nLove for unicorns :)\n\nMinimum full-time salary of $180,000-$226,000. 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