Senior Frontend Engineer (React) at 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.

The opportunity: 

Uphold is looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our DeFi Trading and Reserve team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to focus on building and improving our internal web applications, with the potential to extend these for the use of consumers and businesses. You will be designing and building applications with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.

If you are excited about UI Frameworks like React or Vue.js, GraphQL, E2E Testing, Progressive Web Apps and emerging patterns such as JAMStack, Uphold is the place for you!

*This is a remote (soon to be hybrid 2 days in office) Tampa location. 

Primary responsibilities:

• Building web apps for security and blockchain interaction.
• Working closely with our backend engineering teams to integrate backend services.
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers and other project stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment and support).
• Writing high quality code with performance and scalability in mind.

Required qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of frontend technologies and frameworks like React or Vue.js, React Native, Redux, GraphQL, Styled Components, and RESTful web services.
• Good understanding of the web platform, including DOM, CORS, browser data storage, script loading, request/response headers and others.
• Knowledge of multiple ECMAScript standards and modern JavaScript best practices.
• Proficiency in modern CSS, including Flexbox and/or CSS Grid.
• Knowledge of revision control systems.
• Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.
• Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.
• Cognisant of performance fundamentals such as understanding the difference between layout, painting and compositing.
• Strong focus on project execution and delivery.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in developing multi-language applications.
• Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
• 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.

Benefits: 

• Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.
• Home office stipend for a productive setup.
• 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!