Backend Engineer (Solana) at Alchemy - Apr 24

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Backend Engineer (Solana)


Alchemy Jobs · New York · Engineering & Modelling
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Job Overview

As an engineer focused on backend systems at Alchemy working specifically on our Solana tech stack, you'll be working with one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world. Solana is our newest supported and fastest growing chain to date and requires a more refined focus on high data throughput applications. You'll focus on architecting and building new systems as well as improving existing ones for a platform that supports millions of users globally. The team is still small and looking to grow rapidly, so you will have a lot of agency and ownership with our product roadmaps.

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:

  • 3+ 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)
  • Experience with production distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture
  • Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Proven track record of building highly available and highly scalable systems
  • Experience developing with Java (Micronauts)
  • Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
  • Experience with high throughput streaming services like Kafka is a plus
  • Experience with data pipelining like Google Dataflow is a plus
  • Experience with AWS or GCP technologies is a plus
  • Web3 and startup experience are also pluses

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Alchemy Overview

Alchemy is a platform designed for developers that enables businesses to create decentralized applications that are both scalable and reliable without the burden of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house. It is presently faster, more dependable, and more scalable than any other comparable solution available, and it is incredibly straightforward to incorporate into existing development projects.

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