Senior Software Engineer

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 integrates with more than 30 trading venues, including centralized and decentralized exchanges, to deliver superior liquidity and optimal execution. Uphold never loans out customer assets and is always 100% reserved.
The company pioneered radical transparency and uniquely publishes its assets and liabilities every 30 seconds on a public website (Transparency Page).

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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a talented Senior Software 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.

Essential Duties and 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 and Skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of development experience with modern programming languages such as Go and/or Javascript
• Proficiency in developing REST and/or gRPC 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 cross-functional teams
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Direct experience with Go development, as it will be the primary language used in the role
• 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: 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.
• Inclusive Environment: Value and respect diverse perspectives.

Our 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.