Alchemy is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer in United States

Summary

Alchemy is a world-class blockchain developer platform that powers over $105 billion in transactions for millions of users globally. The company recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation and has been featured in major media outlets. As a Principal engineer focused on infrastructure and backend systems, you will be responsible for architecting and building new systems, improving existing ones, and defining the vision for the backend infrastructure. Alchemy is looking for an experienced engineer with 10+ years of industry experience, a BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and production experience with Java, Golang, or C++.

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 (experience with API platforms a plus)
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like AWS EKS

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k
• Unlimited flexible time off