Software Engineer (Backend)
Company: Alchemy
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 19, 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:
- 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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Keywords: Alchemy, Manteca , Software Engineer (Backend), IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
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