About Uphold
The Web3 economy will redefine how financial value is managed and exchanged - with much of this activity shifting towards blockchain networks and digital assets.
Founded in 2013, Uphold is a Web3 financial platform that supports almost 300 digital assets, serving as a Regulated Gateway to the Web3 economy.
With integrations with 27 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine connected to 30 underlying venues, the Uphold platform enables users to trade 'Anything-to-Anything' with competitive pricing and deep liquidity.
To date, Uphold has facilitated over 120 million transactions worth $40 billion, serving 10 million customers across 150+ countries.
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:
We are at the forefront of the Fintech revolution, creating innovative neo-banking solutions that redefine how individuals and businesses manage their finances. Our mission is to provide seamless, user-friendly, and secure banking experiences through cutting-edge technology.
We are seeking talented Backend Engineers to join our dedicated Digital Payments team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in integrating our system with various bank networks (ACH, SEPA, FPS, etc.), card networks (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), alternative payment methods (Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.) and maintaining the company's physical and virtual card products.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems that power our comprehensive banking solutions.
Primary responsibilities:
Building the most powerful, easy to use financial platform in the world.
Delivering new features and enhancements to our platform.
Collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers and other project stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment and support).
Helping the team keep up-to-date with the tech stack ecosystem.
Writing high quality code with performance and scalability in mind.
Required qualifications:
BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Spent quality time coding, deeply learning the powerful idioms and important idiosyncrasies of multiple programming languages and their ecosystems. We like to code mostly in JavaScript (node.js).
Decent understanding of relational (preferably PostgreSQL) and/or non-relational databases (e.g. Redis).
Decent understanding of web semantics.
Knowledge of revision control systems.
Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.
Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.
Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
Experience in developing APIs for other products you've worked on.
Developing software interacting with message queues (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar or RabbitMQ).
Experience in integrating APIs from other services providers.
Proven record of having worked with performance budgets.
Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you've had or fixing issues on existing projects.
What we have to offer you:
An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
EEOC Employer
We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us better.
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