Junior Backend Engineer

About Uphold

We are a Web 3 Financial Platform - Founded in 2013 and launched in 2014, Uphold has more than 8 million customers in over 150 countries. Recently ranked #1 in the San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 List, Uphold serves over 10 million customers in more than 180 countries. Uphold is a FinTech bridge between the old and new money systems. Our patented “Anything to Anything” platform gives end users seamless access, allowing people and businesses to invest, pay and spend more than 30 FIAT currencies, 200 cryptocurrencies, and precious metals globally and instantly. Join us in our mission to reshape the financial landscape and build a more inclusive financial system, redefining how people access and manage their money. Be part of an innovative and forward-thinking company that values individual contributions and provides a stimulating and challenging home for the brightest and best talent.

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The opportunity:
We are looking for a Junior Backend 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!

What you’ll be doing primarily:

• 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.

Required qualifications:

• 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), Python, Golang and C/C++.

• 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.

What we have to offer you:

• Innovation and Impact: Be part of a company driving innovation and making a meaningful impact.

• Exciting Opportunities: Join our innovative team and work on cutting-edge projects in a stimulating and challenging work environment.

• Competitive Compensation: We offer a competitive salary, performance-based bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.

• Strong Company Culture: Join a supportive and positive work environment built on shared values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.

• Weekly Connect: Regular sessions to share updates, strategize, and foster connections.

• Professional Development: Opportunities for training, workshops, conferences, and mentorship programs.

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible work and supportive policies to help you achieve harmony between your professional and personal life.

• Inclusive and Diverse Environment: Celebrating diversity and fostering an inclusive environment where unique perspectives and contributions are valued.

Benefits:

• Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.

• Home office stipend to support the setup of a productive home office.

• Generous PTO, healthcare coverage, and employee assistance programs.

• Employee assistance programs for mental well-being.

• Interesting and fun events and celebrations.

• Foodie culture and well-stocked office kitchen.

Join our team and embark on a fulfilling career where you'll have the opportunity to grow, innovate, and contribute to something meaningful. We are committed to providing an exceptional employee experience and supporting your professional journey. Come and be a part of our talented team!

If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our careers page to check out all our exciting opportunities.

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