Software Engineer - San Francisco, United States - Alchemy

Description

The Role

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.

Responsibilities:
Own the end to end product lifecycle of identifying, designing, and building new features

Contribute and lead backend design discussions, stand up meetings, and code reviews

Develop and own best practices for backend application development with a focus on high throughput, high reliability, and low latency

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:

5+ years of relevant industry experience

BS/BA degree in Computer Science

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

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, a plus

Founded a company or built side projects, a plus

Experience in startups, a plus

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