Junior Backend Engineer

About Uphold

The Web3 economy will redefine how financial value is managed and exchanged - with much of this activity shifting towards blockchain networks and digital assets.

Founded in 2013, Uphold is a Web3 financial platform that supports almost 300 digital assets, serving as a Regulated Gateway to the Web3 economy.

With integrations with 27 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine connected to 30 underlying venues, the Uphold platform enables users to trade ‘Anything-to-Anything’ with competitive pricing and deep liquidity. 

To date, Uphold has facilitated over 120 million transactions worth $40 billion, serving 10 million customers across 150+ 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 Junior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic FinOps 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, KuCoin, 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 real-time visibility into digital asset flows.

Primary 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

Required qualifications

• 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.

What we offer

• Innovation and Impact: Contribute to pioneering projects in a dynamic and challenging environment.


• Competitive Compensation: 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.


• Inclusive Environment: Value and respect diverse perspectives.

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.

Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team!

Visit our careers page for more exciting opportunities, if this role isn’t the perfect fit.

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.