As an engineer focused on backend systems at Alchemy, 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. You'll have the autonomy to shape technical solutions, influence architectural decisions, and own services throughout their lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend infrastructure, APIs, and services at scale.
- Own the architecture and implementation of distributed systems behind high-volume, low-latency APIs.
- Solve hard scalability, latency, and performance problems in live production systems.
- Lead system design discussions and shape the direction of our backend architecture.
- Set the best practices for backend development - throughput, reliability, and latency.
- Validate performance through automated testing, benchmarking, and production-driven improvements.
- Trace production issues across services and the full stack, and ship fixes that durably improve reliability.
Qualifications & Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend components
- Ability to solve complex design, scalability, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency production systems.
- Production experience with Java, Rust
- Experience in cloud-native environments, particularly AWS.
- Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms such as Amazon EKS is a plus.
- Comfortable working across the stack, with a willingness to dive into infrastructure and platform challenges when the problem calls for it.
- Experience building highly available and scalable distributed systems.
- You're a self-starter who takes ownership, moves fast, and knows when to obsess over the details - and when it's time to ship.
- Curiosity about emerging technologies and a desire to continuously learn and explore new ideas.
- Web3 experience, a plus
- Founded a company or built side projects, a plus
- Experience in startups, a plus
Perks & Compensation
Private Health Insurance Gym Reimbursement Commuter Benefits Flexible Time Off In-Office Group Meals Learning & Development Stipend Company Sponsored Conferences & Events Books & Audiobook subscription with Bookster
About Alchemy
Alchemy, founded in 2017 in San Francisco by Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau, Stanford classmates and former teaching assistants, is a leading Web3 developer platform providing node infrastructure, Supernode and Notify APIs. The stack powers many top Ethereum applications and handles significant transaction volume for customers including major exchanges and consumer apps, with high uptime and scalable archival data. Valued highly after rapid growth, the company serves developers through reliable APIs, enhanced data and educational programs that reduce need to run nodes directly. Headquartered in San Francisco with an office in New York and distributed colleagues, Alchemy invests in developer experience, documentation and enterprise reliability. The culture is engineering-obsessed, docs-first and focused on making every developer a Web3 developer with dependable tooling.