Backend Engineer, Uniswap Labs
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Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
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Ethereum-based decentralized trading & AMM protocol
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To unlock universal ownership and exchange for everyone, starting with bringing millions of people into the emerging web 3.0 economy.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience across Golang, Rust, Typescript, or similar
- Designed, built, and maintained a production system at scale
- Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services
Desirable
- Love for unicorns :)
What the job involves
- The Uniswap Labs team was a major contributor to the Uniswap Protocol and now focuses on building a suite of products to support the Uniswap Labs ecosystem
- Build backend services to meet critical product and business needs
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers to turn requirements into products
- Participate in discussions from the initial product ideas to launch
- Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has quickly emerged as a “killer app” for blockchain technology. Within the past two years or so, an ecosystem of hundreds of DeFi applications has developed on Ethereum — with use cases ranging from lending to trading to insurance — bringing permissionless access to financial services to anyone with an internet connection.
Out of these applications, Uniswap - originated by Uniswap Labs - has become the most actively used. It is the largest decentralized exchange (DEX), allowing anyone to create a market for anything, rather than relying on specific teams to be market-makers in an exchange.
Despite the behemoth size of its star asset, Uniswap Labs does not make money from Uniswap, as it is just a protocol with the 0.3% fee going to reward liquidity providers. The company instead relies on adjacent ways to drive revenue, leveraging its massive influence in the DeFi space to do so.
The company has secured impressive funding, including a 2022 Series B round which represented one of the largest raises in the DeFi sector's history. Now boasting a valuation of $1.66 billion, it intends to invest in expanding operations to bring Uniswap to “even more people across the world.”
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$165m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$11m
SERIES A
Total funding: $178.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited and encouraged time off
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
- 401(k) participation
- Annual $1,500 education stipend
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Home office setup stipend for remote employees
- Daily lunches at NY headquarters
Company HQ
Ramapo, Chestnut Ridge, NY
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Founders
Hayden Adams
(CEO)Former Engineer at Siemens.
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