Backend Engineer – Asset Automation & Crypto APIs
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About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes
- chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for
- chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes
- chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for
- chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.
To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our dynamic Fin
Ops team. In this role, you'll help build and maintain one of our most important internal systems - a platform responsible for orchestrating and automating the movement of assets across exchanges, wallets, and custodians such as Binance, OKX, Fireblocks, Ku
Coin, and Coinbase. You’ll act as a key bridge between our finance and engineering functions, creating tools and workflows that ensure our operational reliability, capital efficiency, and
- time visibility into digital asset flows.
What You'll Be Doing Primarily
- 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
- 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
- driven solutions - Ensuring security, reliability, and auditability in
- stakes systems moving real assets
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum of 3 years of development experience with modern programming languages such as Go.
- Proficiency in developing REST and/or RPC APIs
- Experience integrating APIs from external services
- Familiarity with revision control systems
- Knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work effectively in
- functional teams - Fluent written and oral English skills.
- 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.
- Innovation and Impact: Be a part of a company driving innovation and making meaningful impact. Work on
- edge projects in a stimulating and challenging work environment. - Competitive Compensation: We offer a salary, stock options,
- 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.
- Global All-Hands Calls: Regular sessions to share updates, strategize, and foster connections.
- Development: Opportunities for training and mentorship programs.
- Flexibility: Work from home, from other locations or slightly different hours available.
- Inclusive and Diverse Environment: Foster an environment where different perspectives are valued.
- 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.
- Interesting and fun events and celebrations.
- Foodie culture and
- stocked office kitchen.
If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our careers page to check out all our exciting opportunities.
EEOC Employer
We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us stronger and better - together.
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