About the company
Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide. The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT. Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations. Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.
Job Summary
About the role:
Alchemy's mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world-class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide. Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake.
Infrastructure is our bread and butter at Alchemy. As an engineer focused on infrastructure and backend systems, you'll be working with one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world. You'll focus on architecting and building new systems as well as improving existing ones for a platform that supports millions of users globally.
Responsibilities:
📍Define the vision for the backend infrastructure that supports our developer platform and APIs, and guide the team in executing against that vision. 📍Design, build and maintain highly scalable and reliable infrastructure, APIs, and services. 📍Contribute and lead system design discussions, stand-up meetings, and code reviews. 📍Develop and own best practices for backend infrastructure with a focus on high throughput, high reliability, and low latency. 📍Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack. 📍Collaborate with other engineers, technical leaders, product managers, and designers.
Requirements:
📍10+ years of relevant industry experience. 📍BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 📍Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components. 📍Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems in production. 📍Production experience with Java, Golang, or C++. 📍Experience in Cloud Native environments, particularly in AWS. 📍Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy. 📍Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly. 📍Curiosity on the leading edge — plays with crypto, the latest in AI, and pushes to unpack black boxes.
Nice-to-have: 📍Experience with API platforms. 📍Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like AWS EKS.
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