Software Engineer (Backend)

Company: Alchemy
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 3, 2024

Job 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:

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• 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:
  
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  • 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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Keywords: Alchemy, Sacramento , Software Engineer (Backend), IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California