Software Engineer (New Grad)
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.
The Role
As a new grab engineer focused at Alchemy, you'll be working on some of the most sophisticated products in the blockchain world. From high-throughput distributed systems to full-stack applications you'll focus building and supporting a platform that supports millions of users globally.
Responsibilities:
Own the end to end product lifecycle of identifying, designing, and building new features
Contribute and lead feature discussions, stand up meetings, and code reviews
Identify opportunities to improve existing practices and uphold Alchemy's high technical quality bar
Write stable, high coverage test cases for features you ship
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Collaborate with other engineers, PMs, and designers
What We're Looking For:
BS/BA/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science
2 professional internships
Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus) or building full-stack applications
Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems
Experience with AWS technologies is a plus
Experience with production distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture
Experience developing with Java (Micronauts), Typescript (Node), and/or Python (Django)
Proven track record building highly available and highly scalable systems
Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly
Web3 experience
Founded a company or built side projects, a plus
Experience in startups, a plus