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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About Uphold</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">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.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">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. 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This one is different.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Core Engine is Uphold's ground-up rebuild of the transaction engine that powers financial operations for millions of customers across 140+ countries. We are replacing a 10+ year-old backend with a modern double-entry ledger built on TigerBeetle, PostgreSQL, and Go - and migrating the entire transaction history to it, live, without disrupting production.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">It is the most consequential engineering project happening at Uphold right now. If financial correctness, distributed systems, and systems that genuinely cannot be wrong are what you care about, this is the room to be in.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Essential Duties and Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Design and implement financial workflows across the full ledger system: account management, transaction processing, settlement, and legacy migration</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Build double-entry accounting logic where correctness is non-negotiable - every debit has a credit, every record is permanent by design</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Work with TigerBeetle, a purpose-built high-performance financial ledger database and one of the more interesting pieces of infrastructure in fintech right now</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Use Temporal for durable, fault-tolerant financial workflows that must complete exactly once, even across failures</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Define and maintain gRPC service contracts that other internal systems depend on</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Contribute to the live migration of millions of legacy transactions into the new system - one of the harder problems in software: changing the engine while the car is moving</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Write tests that prove financial correctness, not just exercise code paths</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Other duties and responsibilities as reasonably required or assigned by the line manager</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; 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