Hybrid Backend Engineer

at Uphold Inc.

• Job title: Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: JavaScript, Kafka, Node.js, Open Source, Postgres, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Redis, SDLC, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Backend Engineer at Uphold improving consumer and business APIs along with supporting microservices. Collaborating across teams to ensure maintainability, performance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Building the most powerful, easy to use financial 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.

Requirements

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Spent lots of 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), Golang.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.
• Home office stipend for a productive setup.
• Annual leave, healthcare, and employee assistance programs.
• Engaging events and celebrations.
• Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture.