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Uphold

Crypto Engineer

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San Francisco (Hybrid)

Full-time

This is a paid position. Compensation will be disclosed by the company after applying.

https://uphold.com/

About Company:

Uphold is now the fastest-growing private company in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Business Times Fast Track 100, 2022. Uphold is pursuing a mission to democratize investments and payments for people and companies worldwide. Founded in 2014, the Silicon Valley company today has more than 8 million customers in over 150 countries with an impressive 50x increase in Mobile App downloads during the first quarter of 2020. A bridge between the old and new money systems, Uphold allows people to buy, exchange and send more than 100 currencies, cryptocurrencies, precious metals, and equities instantly. An engineering-led company with a social inclusion agenda, Uphold provides a stimulating and challenging home for the brightest and best talent.

Job Description:

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!

Responsibilities:

  • 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.

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of fundamental blockchain principles.


  • Knowledge of blockchain daemons such as Parity, Geth or Bitcoind.


  • Knowledge of Solidity programming.


  • Experience in integrating with blockchains.


  • Experience with Node.js, TypeScript 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 like to code mostly in JavaScript (node.js), Python, Golang and C/C++.


  • Strong understanding of relational (preferably PostgreSQL) and/or non-relational databases (e.g. Redis).


  • Knowledge of revision control systems.


  • Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.


  • Fluent written and oral English skills.


  • Bonus: Experience in working on blockchain projects like DeFi, staking or lightning network.


  • Bonus: Experience in developing APIs for other products you’ve worked on.


  • Bonus: Developing software interacting with message queues (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar or RabbitMQ).


  • Bonus: Experience in integrating APIs from other services providers.


  • Bonus: Proven record of having worked with performance budgets.


  • Bonus: Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.


  • Bonus: Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.


  • Bonus: 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.


  • Bonus: Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.


  • Bonus: Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.


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