Hybrid Junior Backend Engineer

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About the role

  • Junior Backend Engineer at Uphold developing tools for financial operations and asset management. Collaborating with finance and engineering teams to ensure operational reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and developing robust tools that support and automate financial operations
  • Building internal services to manage asset transfers, settlements, and rebalancing across centralized exchanges and custodial platforms
  • Integrating third-party APIs from exchanges, wallets, and infrastructure providers
  • Collaborating with Finance, Treasury, and other Engineering teams to translate operational needs into scalable systems
  • Enhancing observability, error handling, and reporting across financial workflows
  • Supporting compliance and reconciliation processes through engineering-driven solutions
  • Ensuring security, reliability, and auditability in high-stakes systems moving real assets

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
  • Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Go.
  • Familiarity in developing REST and/or gRPC APIs
  • Aware of concepts like integrating APIs from external services
  • Familiarity with revision control systems
  • Aware of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
  • Fluent written and oral English skills.
  • Bonus if you have Direct experience with Javascript development.
  • Experience with cloud architecture, particularly AWS and Docker
  • 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.
  • Generous PTO, healthcare, and employee assistance programs.
  • Engaging events and celebrations.
  • Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture.

Job title

Junior Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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