Summary

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the API Infra team at Alchemy, you’ll be focused on building an API layer that’s infinitely scalable, highly reliable, and highly performant. It’s a unique opportunity combining the most challenging engineering problems, crypto-forward exposure, and direct customer impact.

What You Will Do

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

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, technical leaders, product managers, and designer

What We are Looking For

5+ 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, C++ or similar

Experience in Cloud Native environments, particularly in AWS

Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like AWS EKS a plus

Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy

Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly

Founded a company or built side projects, a plus

Experience in startups, a plus

Skills

• AWS
• C++
• Development
• Problem Solving
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration