Junior Backend Engineer – Asset Automation & Crypto APIs

About Uphold

Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-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 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.

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 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 RPC 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.
  
  
  

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 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 Have To Offer You

• Innovation and Impact: Be a part of a company driving innovation and making meaningful impact. Work on cutting-edge projects in a stimulating and challenging work environment.
• Competitive Compensation: We offer a salary, stock options, 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.
• 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.
  
  
  

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.
• 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. 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.

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.