Junior Crypto Engineer
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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 Junior 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
- availability requirements, scalability problems, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, queueing systems, APIs and protocols like Graph
QL and g
RPC, 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 the 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
-
- 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.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Knowledge of fundamental blockchain principles.
- Experience in integrating with blockchains.
- Experience with Node. js, Type
Script, Go 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 prefer to code mostly in Java
Script/Type
Script (Node. js) and Golang. - Strong understanding of relational (preferably Postgre
SQL) and/or
- 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.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
- Knowledge of blockchain daemons such as Geth or Bitcoin.
- Knowledge of Solidity programming.
- Experience in working on blockchain projects like De
Fi, staking or lightning network. - Experience in developing APIs for other products you’ve worked on.
- Developing software interacting with message queues (e. g. Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar or Rabbit
MQ). - 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.
- Innovation and Impact: Contribute to pioneering projects in a dynamic and challenging environment.
- Competitive Compensation: Stock options, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits on top of a competitive salary.
- Strong Company Culture: Thrive in a supportive, collegiate environment with values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.
- Global Collaboration: Participate in regular updates, strategy sessions, and networking opportunities across the group.
- Development Opportunities: Access training and mentorship programs.
- Flexibility: Enjoy options to work from home, other locations, or adjust your hours.
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 better.
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Braga, Braga, PortugalPublicado: 9. 7. 2025
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