About Alchemy
Alchemy is the Web3 infrastructure and developer platform that powers millions of users and the world's most innovative blockchain applications. From enabling $1+ trillion in financial transactions worldwide to scaling L2s and enabling DeFi, Alchemy provides the infrastructure and tools developers need to build reliable, scalable, and accessible experiences.
Trusted by companies like JPMorgan, Stripe, Visa, Franklin Templeton, Nike, and backed by a16z, Coatue, Silver Lake, Lightspeed, and Stanford University, Alchemy is building the foundational layer for a decentralized and AI-enabled Web3 ecosystem. For more information, visit alchemy.com.
About the Role
Talent is Alchemy's greatest competitive advantage. As a Technical Recruiter, you'll be responsible for identifying, attracting, and closing exceptional technical talent across the company. You'll partner directly with engineering and product leaders to understand business needs, develop recruiting strategies, and build high-performing teams capable of solving some of the most complex challenges in infrastructure, distributed systems, AI, and blockchain technology.
This is a highly strategic and visible role with significant impact on Alchemy's future. You'll help shape the technical organization, influence hiring decisions, and serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across the company.
If you're passionate about building elite technical teams, thrive in fast-moving environments, and enjoy competing for top talent in highly competitive markets, we'd love to meet you.
Key Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across technical functions, including Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Product Engineering, Security, Data, Product Management, Design, and Technical Operations.
- Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to understand organizational priorities and develop hiring strategies aligned with company goals.
- Build and manage high-quality candidate pipelines through sourcing, networking, referrals, talent mapping, and community engagement.
- Identify and engage exceptional passive candidates from top technology companies, startups, and research institutions.
- Drive candidate engagement and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from initial outreach through offer acceptance.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring teams on talent market trends, compensation benchmarks, interview design, and hiring best practices.
- Partner with interviewers and hiring managers to maintain a high hiring bar while ensuring efficient and inclusive hiring processes.
- Leverage recruiting data and funnel analytics to identify opportunities and improve hiring outcomes.
- Help build scalable recruiting programs, interviewer training, assessment frameworks, and recruiting operations.
- Champion Alchemy's culture and values throughout every stage of the recruiting process.
Qualifications & Requirements
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in a high-growth technology company, executive search firm, or recruiting agency.
- Demonstrated success hiring software engineers and technical talent across multiple levels, from early-career hires through senior and staff-level candidates.
- Strong sourcing skills and a track record of engaging passive technical candidates in competitive talent markets.
- Experience recruiting for highly technical domains such as infrastructure, distributed systems, backend engineering, machine learning, AI, security, developer tools, or platform engineering.
- Ability to develop credibility and influence with engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
- Ability to operate independently and manage multiple high-priority searches simultaneously.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to drive decision-making.
- High standards, strong ownership mentality, and relentless focus on outcomes.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for developer infrastructure, cloud platforms, AI, fintech, crypto, or blockchain companies.
- Experience hiring Staff+, Principal, and Engineering Leadership talent.
- Familiarity with modern recruiting technologies, sourcing tools, and talent intelligence platforms.
- Experience supporting rapid company scaling from growth-stage to late-stage startup environments.
- Passion for emerging technologies and building products that shape the future of the internet.
Perks & Compensation
Medical, Dental, & Vision Gym Reimbursement Home Office Build-out Budget Commuter Benefits Flexible Time Off In-Office Group Meals Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks Learning & Development Stipend Company Sponsored Conferences & Events HSA and FSA Plans Fertility Benefits
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.
