About the company
Uphold is an easy-to-use investments and payments app. Specialising in digital assets, we serve more than 10 million customers in 150 countries. We open around 3,000 accounts a day and provide consumers with a more versatile and cost-effective home for their daily financial lives. For businesses, we provide regulated infrastructure to connect crypto with fiat currencies. Today, we support over 200 digital assets, 28 national currencies and four precious metals. Our unique trading experience allows customers to trade directly between any supported asset or currency in one step - physical gold to Bitcoin, for example - saving both time and money.
Job Summary
What you’ll be doing primarily:
📍Building the most powerful and easy to use digital Wallet in the world. 📍Delivering new features and enhancements to the platform across web and mobile. 📍Working closely with the Backend Engineering team 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.
