Software Engineer (Backend) - Distributed Systems

Job description

About The Role

As a Software Engineer at Alchemy, you’ll be focused on building one of the most sophisticated and high-throughout distributed systems that power the global backbone powering billions of users in Web3. It’s a unique opportunity combining the most challenging engineering problems, crypto-forward exposure, and direct customer impact.

What You'll Do

• To help define the vision for the backend infrastructure that supports our team’s product pillar and guide the team in executing against that vision

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and reliable infrastructure, APIs, and services

• Contribute to and participate in 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

• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

• Collaborate with other technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify business priorities, define the team roadmap, and act on them

What We're Looking For

• 8+ 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

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