Senior Defi Engineer

About Uphold

The Web3 economy will redefine how financial value is held and transacted - with much activity shifting towards blockchain networks and digital assets.  Founded in 2013, Uphold is a Web3 financial platform that supports almost 300 digital assets and acts as a Regulated Gateway to the Web3 economy.  Featuring integrations with 26 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine connected to 30 underlying venues, the platform allows users to trade ‘Anything-to-Anything’ while enjoying keen pricing and deep liquidity. Uphold has completed more than 120 million transactions worth $40 billion from 10 million customers in over 150 countries.  Both people and companies need to access this exciting Web3 world, but it can  be technically demanding and time-consuming.

Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone. 

To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com

The opportunity

Our reserve trades cryptocurrencies across centralized exchanges (CeFi) and decentralized exchanges (DeFi).  Our team has a background in high-frequency, quantitative trading and we create trading strategies that leverage automation.  We are looking for a developer to take ownership of our centralized trading platform.

For our DeFi Connections we use a combination of proprietary software and off the shelf tools to create cutting edge for holding crypto not yet available on cold storage and to trading on DeFi exchanges.  We use the best technology available for each task, but our DeFi work makes heavy use of Typescript, Javascript and shell scripting.

Requirements

• Have significant experience in writing software interacting with EVM chains

• Have at least five years of experience in software engineering

• Experience with trading systems and large complex codebases

• Significant professional experience in our core languages: Typescript and Javascript (or Golang)

• Experience or excitement to act as a team lead with significant ownership of the group’s efforts

• Effective communication skills; a positive, team player

• Significant experience in automated testing frameworks, continuous integration, and test-driven design

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect

• If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our career page to check out all our exciting opportunities.

Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!

If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our career page to check out all our exciting opportunities.  

EEOC Employer

Uphold is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.