Crypto Engineer

at  Uphold

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.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Uphold is looking for a Crypto Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to focus on building and improving our consumer and business APIs and the many microservices powering our web and mobile applications. You will be designing and building services with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.
If you are excited about high-availability requirements, scalability problems, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, queueing systems, APIs and protocols like GraphQL and gRPC, Uphold is the place for you!

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of fundamental blockchain principles.
• Knowledge of blockchain daemons such as Geth or Bitcoind.
• Knowledge of Solidity programming.
• Experience in integrating with blockchains.
• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go and other frameworks.
• Spent lots of quality time coding, deeply learning the powerful idioms and important idiosyncrasies of multiple programming languages and their ecosystems. We prefer to code mostly in JavaScript (node.js), Golang and Python.
• Strong understanding of relational (preferably PostgreSQL) and/or non-relational databases (e.g. Redis).
• Strong understanding of web semantics.
• Knowledge of revision control systems.
• Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other
• automation tools.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

BONUS IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience in working on blockchain projects like DeFi, staking or lightning network.
• 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.
  Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.

• Building the most powerful, easy to use payment platform in the world.
• Delivering new features and enhancements to our platform.
• Working closely with the Frontend and Mobile Engineering teams to integrate frontend UI.
• 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.
• Working on integrating with existing blockchains.
• Working on a microservice architecture, aiming for security and scalability.