Principal Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Competitive (Details not provided)
• Description: Alchemy is building a complete developer platform for web3, powering 70% of the top web3 teams and supporting 100+ million users. The Principal Engineer role focuses on architecting and building highly scalable and reliable backend infrastructure and APIs to support the platform.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Education: BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Backend Expertise: Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus)
• Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems in production.
• Programming Languages: Production experience with Java, Golang, or C++
• Cloud Native: Experience in Cloud Native environments, particularly in AWS
• Kubernetes: Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like AWS EKS a plus
• Soft Skills: Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy; ability to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision for the backend infrastructure that supports the developer platform and APIs.
• 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.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Collaborate with other engineers, technical leaders, product managers, and designers.

Application Instructions

• Details not provided in the job description. (Contact Alchemy directly for application instructions).

Company Information

• Mission: To bring web3 to a billion people.
• Platform: Alchemy is the only complete developer platform offering powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools for building onchain products and rollups.
• Customers: Powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3, and 100+ million end users (including Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, Shopify, and Adobe).
• Funding: Backed by leading VCs and institutions including Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab.